Creative Quotations from Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Omar Khayyam
(1048-1131) born on May 18

Persian "poet, mathematician, astronomer". He was renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements.

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

"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness --
And Wilderness is Paradise enow."

"Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!"

A hair divides what is false and true.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam," st. 74, tr. by Edward FitzGerald, 1879."
R:	""The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," st. 11, r. by Edward FitzGerald; first ed., 1859."
A:	""The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," st. 12, r. by Edward FitzGerald; first ed., 1859."
N:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."