Quotes About Birth

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Every man born of woman has problems.