Omar Khayyam Quotes

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

Happiness, Life, Happy

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

Today, Tomorrow, Happen

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

Wine, Bread, Thou

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

Why, Drink, Nor

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

Moving On, Moving, Nor

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.
Omar Khayyam

Life, Wise, Today

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.
Omar Khayyam

Great, Same, Young

A hair divides what is false and true.
Omar Khayyam

True, Hair, False

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

Through, Door, Might

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam

Soul, Thoughtful, Solitude

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.
Omar Khayyam

Marriage, Made, Friends

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Biography

Type: Poet

Born: May 18, 1048

Died: December 4, 1131

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