eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die

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谚语
  1. Life is short, so you should enjoy it while you can.
    — These warnings sound strange to our lives, molded so often on the assumption that this life is the only one we can be sure of, and hence, while we have it, we should eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
  2. In speaking pejoratively of epicurean beliefs.
    — Instead of saying as the epicure, "let us eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die;" or on the other hand, murmuring against the appointments of God, and indulging our vain objections; let us seek for a lively hope, a submissive will, and a contented mind

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A conflation of two Biblical references:
* Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry
* Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we [shall] die
A direct quote from the Book of Mormon:
* Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well with us.
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