Omar Khayyam Quotes

Living Life Tomorrow`s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

A hair divides what is false and true.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.