[1] In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says, "...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!
"[5] The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including novels by Theodora Benson,[6] Françoise Sagan,[7] and Charles Romalotti;[8] Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s autobiography The Salad Days;[9] and numerous cookbooks.
One of its songs, "The Time of My Life," includes the lyrics,[13] "We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days."
A sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus is called "Salad Days," and features a parody of Slade's musical as interpreted by Sam Peckinpah.
Salad Days is the name of a documentary film released in 2014 about the evolving punk and hardcore scene in Washington DC during the 1980s and 1990s.