„The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.“

— George Carlin
„The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.“
— Carl Sagan
„Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.“
— Jodi Picoult
„The rain, it raineth every day.“
— William Shakespeare
„It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.“
— Jim Butcher
„Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.“
— Ernest Hemingway