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" The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, „. x Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. "
The Observatory - Page 442
1901
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Foundations of Business Economics: Markets and Prices

Harry Townsend - 1995 - 228 pages
...equal percentages each year). Economists believe, with Omar Khayyam, that 'the moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on: nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line'. Bygones are forever bygones, and the original cost of a machine is quite irrelevant....
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein - 1998 - 404 pages
...realist, Omar Khayyam, had had the same thought nearly a thousand years before: The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel halfa Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. What do you do when a decision leads...
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Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 pages
...Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXI. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, i8y2 Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel halt a Line. Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXI. The Moving Finger writes; and,...
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The Quagmire

Emil Murad - 1998 - 282 pages
...ambience was a mixture of sorrow and reserved joy. To An Unknown Destination The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ. Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel haifa Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayyam It was at this time that...
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Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge

John B. Caouette, Edward I. Altman, Paul Narayanan - 1998 - 476 pages
...Junk Bonds. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 16 Credit Risk Migration The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel Iwlfa Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. — The Rubhdiyat of Omar Khayyam, stanza...
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Joint Hearing on the Sierra Club's Proposal to Drain Lake Powell Or Reduce ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands - 1998 - 158 pages
...calls to mind the lines from Edward Fitzgerald s "Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam": The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it hack to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Time does move in one direction...
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Crumbs!

John Ough - 1999 - 184 pages
...Epic ocean flight - fickle finger of fate Titanic deviation 159 Appendix II The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all yourTears wash out a Word of it. Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of...
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综合英语

2000 - 256 pages
...possible. An old and dear friend of minesent me the wisdom of a poet who wrote, "The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel a line. Nor all your tears ling shot find a p< aday: hoes. The lot of choic to spend on j...
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The Hamas asset freeze and other government efforts to stop terrorist ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations - 2003 - 120 pages
...talking about right now, which is of course Iran. In a major powerful and poetic work that he did, he said "the moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears erase a single word of it." There is a lot...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, First, Second and Fifth Editions

Omar - 2005 - 109 pages
...down into the Field, fife knows about it all—HE knows—HE knows! LXXVI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor al l your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXVH For let Philosopher and Doctor...
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