Omar Khayyam Quotes About Wine

Quotes about: Wine

• Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Lonely, Kings, Book

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

• Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Giving, Rose

• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Jugs, Bread

• Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

  Omar Khayyam

  Regret, Wine, Past

  Omar Khayyam (1859). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia”, p.5

• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Vineyards, Littles

• I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Half, Stuff

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.221, University of Virginia Press

• 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

  Blessed, Wine, Sadness

• Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

  Omar Khayyam

  Death, Song, Lying

  Omar Khayyam (1868). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].”, p.6

• 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

  Wine, Men, Land

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