Omar Khayyam Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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”

• 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

  Book, Writing, Names

• Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

  Omar Khayyam

  Book, Thinking, Two

  As quoted in "A Paper of Omar Khayyam" by A.R. Amir-Moez in "Scripta Mathematica", 26, 1963.

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