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Omar Khayyam Biography
- Full Name : Omar Ibn Ibrahim Al-Khaiyami An-Nishaburi
- Born : Nishapur, Khorasan, Seljuk Empire "Iran" (May 18, 1048)
- Dead : (December 4, 1131)
- Nationality : Persian
- Profession : Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
Omar Khayyam Facts
- Omar Khayyam is best known in the west for the poem, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- Omar Khayyam discovered about Pascal's triangle and triangular array of binomial coefficients
- During the day Omar was said to teach algebra and geometry and at night he would study astronomy.
- It was his work that was largely responsible for transmitting Arab mathematics to Europe.
- Khayyam’s theories were improved on in 1650 by Giordano Vitale.
Omar Khayyam Quotes
1. “ Justice is the soul of the universe. ”
— Omar Khayyam
2. “ Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ”
— Omar Khayyam
3. “ If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I? ”
— Omar Khayyam
4. “ Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. ”
— Omar Khayyam
5. “ I came like Water, and like Wind I go. ”
— Omar Khayyam
6. “ Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
— Omar Khayyam
7. “ My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life. ”
— Omar Khayyam
8. “ I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love. ”
— Omar Khayyam
9. “ To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion. ”
— Omar Khayyam
10. “ This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place. ”
— Omar Khayyam
11. “ The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots. ”
— Omar Khayyam
12. “ I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one! ”
— Omar Khayyam
13. “ Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die. ”
— Omar Khayyam
14. “ The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. ”
— Omar Khayyam
15. “ The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.”
— Omar Khayyam
16. “ 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
17. “ 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 Khayyam
18. “ 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
19. “ Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! ”
— Omar Khayyam
20. “ The Flower that once has blown forever dies. ”
— Omar Khayyam
21. “ Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here. ”
— Omar Khayyam
22. “ The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. ”
— Omar Khayyam
23. “ Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. ”
— Omar Khayyam
24. “ When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child. ”
— Omar Khayyam
25. “ Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years.”
— Omar Khayyam
26. “ 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
27. “ 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 Khayyam
28. “ He who has one enemy shall meet him. ”
— Omar Khayyam
29. “ 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 Khayyam
30. “ As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”
— Omar Khayyam
31. “ We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness. ”
— Omar Khayyam
32. “ Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet. ”
— Omar Khayyam
33. “ So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.”
— Omar Khayyam
34. “ There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. ”
— Omar Khayyam
35. “ Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.”
— Omar Khayyam
36. “ The rose that once has bloomed forever dies. ”
— Omar Khayyam
37. “ Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.”
— Omar Khayyam
38. “ Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today. ”
— Omar Khayyam
39. “ 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 Khayyam
40. “ A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. ”
— Omar Khayyam
41. “ I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth. ”
— Omar Khayyam
42. “ I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share. ”
— Omar Khayyam
43. “ The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. ”
— Omar Khayyam
44. “ 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 Khayyam