Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)

"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Life, Wine)

"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Question)

"Taste is the feminine of genius."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Genius, Taste)

"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Travel, Darkness, Road)

"If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: God, Will, Woman)

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Piety, Tears, Wit, Word)

"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Water, Wind)

"I am all for the short and merry life."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Life)

"And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Honor, Wine, Wonder)

"Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Rest)

"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Wine)

"There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Key)

"I come like Water, and like Wind I go."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Water, Wind)