"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ~ John Dryden, based on "Ode XXIX" of Horace ~"

"The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. ~ John Dryden, translation of Virgil, Aeneid, vi, 126 ~"

"3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:15, 19 August 2015 (UTC) -->"

"2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC) -->"

"1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC) -->"

"0 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) This seems very likely to be a very recent misattribution, and perhaps a variant translation or alteration of lines by Piet Hein. There appears to be only about a half dozen sites on the internet that attribute this to Ogden Nash, perhaps the earliest appearing in "Heuristics for Iterative Software Development" by Drasko Sotirovski, IEEE Software, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 66-73, (May/June 2001) where the author states "...as Bob Glass has said, quoting Ogden Nash, "At last I've found the secret that guarantees success: to err, and err, and err again...". If it were truly an Ogden Nash poem it's citations would likely be far more prominent."

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:18, 19 August 2020 (UTC) 3 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) , but would extend this now to read:"

"2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC) -->"

"3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC) -->"

"4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:35, 18 August 2014 (UTC) 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 15 August 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. but would now extend this to read:"

"2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC) -->"

"0 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)"

"4 I love this one. The man who is patient eventually loses his patience and pretty much goes into an unparalleled rage, heightened a thousand fold more than the impatient man. Charming quote. Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->"

"4 Kalki 22:53, 18 August 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; but would now extend this to read:"

"1 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->"

"4 Kalki 22:34, 19 August 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) but am inclined to a 4, and probably will rank it higher at some point in time."

"3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 09:58, 18 July 2017 (UTC)"

"3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC) -->"

"4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 15 August 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 22:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4."

"4 Kalki 21:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC) Somewhat suprised that Dryden has only had one QOTD, I had been much inclined to use Dryden's famous "Beware the fury of a patient man" but am now inclined to defer to this, for this year. -->"

"1 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC) good quote, but no clear relation to date."

"4 if it were used on the right date Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)"

"2 Kalki 20:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Though I'm not sure of the context, I find this rather humorous."

"proposed by IP 60.234.48.116, no clear relation to date."

"3 because this says a lot about civilization. Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)"

"2 AllanHainey June 30, 2005 08:16 (UTC)"

"2 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)"

"1 Zarbon 18:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)"

"1 //Gbern3 (talk) 12:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC) -->"