Omar Khayyam Wine Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

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!

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