Omar Khayyam Quotes

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

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Want, Will)

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Soul, Solitude, Thoughtful)

"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
(Related: Piety, Wit)

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

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: 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."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Marriage, Daughter, Bed, Friends, Old, Reason)

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Wine)

"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
(Related: Life, Fate, Living, Today, Tomorrow, Will)

"A hair divides what is false and true."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Hair)