Quotes by : Omar Khayyám

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

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t....

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and griefits a shame that....

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul....

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which....

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You....

It is a shame for anyoneto be well-known for righteousness.It is a great disgrace to feeldistress at....

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel....

The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows....