The motto was also allegedly a favorite of the English writer and poet Martin Tupper, for which he was frequently mocked by Karl Marx.
[5] In a small introduction to David Zvi Hoffmann's posthumous seminal work "Melamed LeHoel", his eldest son Moses Judah open with these remarks: "It was a pearl in my father's mouth to say 'Nulla dies sine linea' (Frankfurt am Main, 1925)".
The Spanish Catholic priest, St. Josemaria Escriva, famously used as his motto a line structurally similar to Pliny's phrase: in laetitia, nulla dies sine cruce ("in joy, not a day without the Cross").
Émile Zola took up this expression and made it a motto, inscribed on the lintel of the fireplace in his office, in his house in Médan.
"[citation needed] The poet Philippe Léotard ironically used this phrase as the title of one of his autobiographical essays (1992).