“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
Smoke Signals (1998)
Rallying cry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25 June 1876), quoted in Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west by Judson Elliott Walker
“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
Smoke Signals (1998)
“Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.”
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
War cry of Crazy Horse in battle as quoted at "Setting the Record Straight About Native Languages: A Good Day To Die" http://www.native-languages.org/iaq21.htm
“If I advance; follow me! If I retreat; kill me! If I die; avenge me!”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Attributed to Mussolini by G. K. Chesterton in G. K's Weekly (1925), and later appearing in "Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943), this actually originates with Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1793), as quoted in Narrative of the French Expedition in Egypt, and the Operations in Syria (1816) by Jacques Miot
Attributed
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay
Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer
"Skies Don't Lie" (song) <br class="br"> ("Skies Don't Lie" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJToHBj8Eb4 <br class="br">Studio albums, Playing in the Shadows (2011)
“Give me to die unwitting of the day,
And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) American poet, critic, and essayist
"Mors Benefica".
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Huntress
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)