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From: tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Who said it?
Message-ID: <105@alliant.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 16:38:51 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 16:38:51 1985
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Reply-To: tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz)
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Summary: 

>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

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