pmd@cbsck.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) (11/06/85)
Famous sayings dept.: Q: Who is credited with the saying, "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die"? -- Paul Dubuc cbsck!pmd
wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) (11/07/85)
> Q: Who is credited with the saying, "Eat, drink and be merry, for > tomorrow you die"? According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: ....eat, drink and be merry. is from the bible, Luke 12:19 and: Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. is also from the bible!!! Isaiah 22:13 Bartlett doesn't reference the form youasked for, or the form I always thought was the right one: Eat dringk and be merry for tomorrow we die. It sounds like it might be from a Kipling poem to me.
silber@lasspvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Silber) (11/07/85)
In article <1480@cbsck.UUCP> pmd@cbsck.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) writes: >Famous sayings dept.: > >Q: Who is credited with the saying, "Eat, drink and be merry, for > tomorrow you die"? >-- > >Paul Dubuc cbsck!pmd "Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die" -Isaiah 22:13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Jeffrey Silber Theory Center, Cornell University
tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) (11/10/85)
>Q: Who is credited with the saying, "Eat, drink and be merry, for > tomorrow you die"? Take your pick (from Oxford dict. of Quot.): Then I commanded mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 8:15 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. -- Isaiah 22:13 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. -- St. Luke 12:19 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. -- 1 Corinthians 15:32 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: decvax!linus!alliant!tj, harpo!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!alliant!tj ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avoid unnecessary repetition. Avoid unnecessary repetition.