Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Fitzgerald

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Edward Fitzgerald.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.

English - Poet | March 31, 1809 - July 14, 1883

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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Edward Fitzgerald

Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

Edward Fitzgerald

I am all for the short and merry life.

Edward Fitzgerald

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

Edward Fitzgerald

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

Edward Fitzgerald

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Edward Fitzgerald

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Edward Fitzgerald

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Edward Fitzgerald

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Edward Fitzgerald

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward Fitzgerald

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

Edward Fitzgerald