Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bonnie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!wjh From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Who said it? Message-ID: <609@bonnie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 22:12:44 EST Article-I.D.: bonnie.609 Posted: Wed Nov 6 22:12:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:33:29 EST References: <1480@cbsck.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 19 > 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.