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Omar Khayyam Quotes
Poet May 18, 1048 - December 4, 1131

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar Khayyam

A hair divides what is false and true.
Omar Khayyam

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

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.
Omar 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 Khayyam

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
Omar Khayyam

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anneliese32
5 years ago
I can post again!!! Anything which can go wrong on the internet connections went wrong this week. I keep my fingers crossed that it stays as is right now.

Taking my last few days in consideration, I can only agree with the first quote and like the others.
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Try again. Where do answers go? There really not much time difference between her opinion of her day and now, some things never seem to change.
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I not either. Especially lately, where I am about to explode every time I hear or read the news. I have been all my life a newshound, like the rest of my family. Now I dread to watch the news, even the local one.
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Must admit, I am not familiar with his writing. Something to check out. Kind of weird day today. Woke up to e-mail from son that granddaughter went to hospital for birth of great-grand number two. An hour later got e-mail from Germany that a former neighbor died yesterday. I just was looking for an e-card for his birthday on the first of June. He would have been 70.
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One always associates Walt Whitman immediately with poetry and nothing else, so his quotes come as a welcome surprise. Another thing with struck me in his second quote, is how the meaning of a word can change over time. Odorous now is usual negative, when he means the opposite.
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