“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou.”

— Omar Khayyam · Happiness quote

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou. — Omar Khayyam quote card
Mathematician and poet · 1048 – 1131

Persian polymath — mathematician, astronomer and philosopher — whose Rubaiyat quatrains became world-famous in Edward FitzGerald's English translation.

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