# quotation question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/35322>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/35322 "2000-10-02T10:43:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Togepi_no_Miko)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/35322/1 "2000-10-02T10:43:53Z")

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I’m reading one of my Heinlein books, and I’d like to know where he got this quote from:

“Life is short, but the years are long; Not while the evil days come not.”

Many thanks!

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/35322/2 "2000-10-02T11:58:29Z")

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Closest I found (by throwing bits of the quote at a search engine) is this biblical quote:

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> “Remember now thy Creator in he days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.” -Ecclesiastes 12:1