Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.
Michael YoungAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerI'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl DawkinsMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeHome is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. [an interesting quote indeed, Mr Grunwald]
Henry GrunwaldFrom birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie TuckerMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George SantayanaWith my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney DangerfieldWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungToday is my birthday and the crew surprised me with a cake. But this was not the best present I got from the team. That was the new car, which felt good on the track. I did a few runs in the afternoon and everything went well.
Giancarlo FisichellaA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusOn the birth of her 2nd son Owen. 'I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!'
Ricki LakeWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowThey kept trying to sponge down my face with cool water and all I could do was shout 'be careful of my hair!' because I didn't want it to go all curly (on giving birth to son Harvey)
JordanFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonTo understand the mysteries of life you must look around and within. You will see patterns everywhere; patterns that seem to manifest themselves over and over again. These patterns exist intertwined within nature and man bridging the gap between the enigma of self and universe. You see them in spiraling galaxies and the Mandelbrot fractal of fossilized Ammonoidea; growing from the unknown to atoms to molecules to solar systems to galaxies to the paradoxical expanses of the universe with origins and destinations unknown; just like us in birth and death. The similarities of tree branches, rivers and blood veins. The power of cellular division and nuclear fission, the patterns of finger prints like endoplasmic reticulum, or a black opal's play of fire like the nebula of supernova. Moon shots are like protoplasmic lurches, while simple thoughts and observations of the nature around us take us beyond the unknown. The clues to the great mystery are all around us and deep within us.
Bryant H McGillWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleJoan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband.
John ParrottEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltI cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv TylerThe cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia CooperA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckBirth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma GandhiThe most effective form of birth control known to man is a Bronx accent [that's a little bit harsh on people from the Bronx isn't it Lewis?]
Lewis GrizzardAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonThe lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
William Of NormandyWe should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley FranklinThe return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel JohnsonHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayWe do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton WilderHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinYou can tell it's a journalist's child because all he wants to do is to drink and sleep. [on birth of his third child]
John HumphreysGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettA noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
George LilloIt was my 13th birthday and I have treasured it ever since [Peggy Sue].
It is the greatest single ever made. I still have it, but rarely play it for fear of damaging it.
John GribbinHe will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted [on fighting Khan on 8th Dec, his birthday]
Graham EarlThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James ThurberThis existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
BuddhaThe pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret MeadBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoPoverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
J K RowlingMasterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf
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