“The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”
Omar Khayyam Quotes
1048 – 1131
Persian polymath and poet, whose quatrains were popularised in English by Edward FitzGerald.
25 quotesAbout Omar Khayyam on Wikipedia
“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain.”
“Ah, take the Cash in hand and wave the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!”
“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
“Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies;”
“Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore — but was I sober when I swore?”
“One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.”
“A book, a woman, and a flask of wine: The three make heaven for me; it may be thine”
“Allah, perchance, the secret word might spell; If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;”
“Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness.”
“Happy are they that never come at all, And they, that, having come, the soonest go.”
