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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt read more
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in read more
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at read more
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.