More from Omar Khayyam
The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin’d Hour and went his way.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Here’s to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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 KhayyamOmar Khayyam Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on fake
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
Aaron SorkinAaron Sorkin People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Aaron SorkinAaron Sorkin I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
Edward AlbeeEdward Albee Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I’ll shoot him under the table.” Han (to Leia)
Aaron AllstonAaron Allston The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TacitusTacitus I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it’s online or in every city we go to.
Russell WestbrookRussell Westbrook
