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There are a collection of poems called The Rubaiyat of
[Omar Khayyam](https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html). I saw references
to one of its four liners in a random video clip of a show. That's unexpected.
      
  > Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!  
  > One thing at least is certain--This Life flies;  
  > One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;  
  > The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

  --- [Quatrain 63](https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html#:~:text=LXIII)

The translation on the third line is especially spiffy, and the fourth,
sufficiently crafty (at least in my opinion).