Omar Khayyam Quotes

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.