Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site alliant.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!alliant!tj 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 Article-I.D.: alliant.105 Posted: Sat Nov 9 16:38:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 22:41:11 EST References: <1480@cbsck.UUCP> Reply-To: tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corporation, 42 Nagog Park, Acton, MA 01720 Lines: 28 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: decvax!linus!alliant!tj, harpo!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!alliant!tj ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avoid unnecessary repetition. Avoid unnecessary repetition.