"six foot one, i walked around like i was ten feet tall--did you see me shine?"
In social meetings among the rich, when the banquet is ended, a servant carries round to the several guests a coffin, in which there is a wooden image of a corspe, carved and painted to resemble nature as nearly as possible, about a cubit or two cubits in length. As he shows it to each guest in turn, the servant says, "Gaze here, and drink and be merry; for when you die, such will you be."
Par. 78, Book II, Euterpe, from Herodotus' The History, trans. George Rawlinson; speaking of Egyptian customs
Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup,
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
[...]
Yesterday this Day's Madness did prepare;
Tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Stanzas 2 and 80, from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.
Par. 78, Book II, Euterpe, from Herodotus' The History, trans. George Rawlinson; speaking of Egyptian customs
Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup,
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
[...]
Yesterday this Day's Madness did prepare;
Tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Stanzas 2 and 80, from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.