“About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.”
Consolation to Apollonius
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Plutarch 251
ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127Related quotes
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
“Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.”
Speech in the House of Commons, June 4, 1940; passage praising the airmen of the Royal Air Force and their efforts during the evacuation of Dunkirk. This is a close paraphrase of Tennyson:
When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Alfred Tennyson, "Morte d'Arthur" http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/mort.htm, stanza 23 (1842), and the expanded "The Passing of Arthur", stanza 36 in Idylls of the King (1856–1885)
The Second World War (1939–1945)
The opening sentence of the novel, Ch. 1
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Journal entry (20 April 1920); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 6
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 135
Lovesexy
Song lyrics, Lovesexy (1988)
“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”