Saturday, December 12, 2009
12th century
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;
To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
- Omar Khayyam, Excerpt from The Rubaiyat, 1120 C.E.