Omar Khayyam
» Alcohol and Alcoholism » “Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”
» Argument » “Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”
» Future » “There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.”
» Life and Death » “‘Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”
» Life and Living » “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.”
» Sky » “And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop’t we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help — for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.”
» Solitude » “The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”
» Truth » “A hair divides what is false and true.”
» War » “Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”
» Wine » “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.”
» Writers and Writing » “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”
