Omar Khayyám

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

— Omar Khayyam

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

— Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

— Omar Khayyam

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

— Omar Khayyam

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

— Omar Khayyam

“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,”

— Omar Khayyám

If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?

— Omar Khayyam

Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and…

— Omar Khayyam

Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

— Omar Khayyam

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

— Omar Khayyam

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

— Omar Khayyam

“Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilisations the moon has seen passing by.”

— Omar Khayyám

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

— Omar Khayyam

You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.

— Omar Khayyam

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and…

— Omar Khayyam

Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between…

— Omar Khayyam

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend.…

— Omar Khayyam

“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Is it not a Shame--is…

— Omar Khayyám

“My coming brought no profit to the sky, Nor does my going swell its glory; My two ears have never heard anyone…

— Omar Khayyám

The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep…

— Omar Khayyam

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where…

— Omar Khayyam

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write…

— Omar Khayyam

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the…

— Omar Khayyam

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which…

— Omar Khayyam

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact…

— Omar Khayyam

“Listen again. One Evening at the Close Of Ramazán, ere the better Moon arose, In that old Potter’s Shop I stood alone…

— Omar Khayyám

Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,…

— Omar Khayyam

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for…

— Omar Khayyam

“Why do you sell your wine, merchant? What can they give you in exchange for your wine? Money? … And what can…

— Omar Khayyám

We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm…

— Omar Khayyam

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under…

— Omar Khayyam

“Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”

— Omar Khayyám

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

— Omar Khayyam

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

— Omar Khayyam

“Ne goûte qu'au présent... le passé a l'odeur des Morts.”

— Omar Khayyám

A hair divides what is false and true.

— Omar Khayyam

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

— Omar Khayyam

Justice is the soul of the universe.

— Omar Khayyam

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

— Omar Khayyam