gather rosebuds

From the first line of "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (inspired by Wisdom 2:8) by Robert Herrick (1591-1674): :: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, :: Old time is still a-flying; :: And this same flower that smiles today :: Tomorrow will be dying.

• "Pottleby: I like to see young people enjoying their youth—gathering rosebuds."
• "Gather rosebuds, Gráinne, gather rosebuds. Look at your moths and butterflies and think of possibilities, think of love, Gráinne, think of open spaces and freedom and love."
• "But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease."
• ". . . Or the poets who have kept turning out exhortations to seize the day and gather rosebuds."
• "“Fleet Foxes” meandered and gathered rosebuds and killed time, but it also announced the arrival of a significant young songwriter."

• carpe diem
• seize the day
• take the cash and let the credit go

• eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
• stop and smell the roses