“Past is deadFuture is uncertain;Present is all you have,So eat, drink and live merry.”
“Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we'll die”
“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.”
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;Custards for supper, and an endless hostOf syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,And other such ladylike luxuries.”
“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”