I was just out looking for my entry in this chat, THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII by Michael Smith and recorded by Anne Hills on her early DON'T PANIC album. Alas. Did not find. May have it on the LP jacket, and I needed to type it up anyway to sing it sometime. Unelss someone else beats pore tired old me to it....But then there is the easy entry, the caption from a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon-- two cows chatting in the field, as I recall, and one says to the other, "Don't forget to stop and eat the roses."
This has become a line our whole family uses with people, forgetting that they may have no point of reference for it at all-- but then that makes them ask, see, and we explain what we understand by it, so it works.
~S~