1) 6252. Beckett, Samuel. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:6252 QUOTATION:Birth was the death of him. ATTRIBUTION:Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Speaker, in "A Piece of Monologue," one of the... 2) 18868. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:18868 QUOTATION:Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks: Birth, and copulation, and death. I've been born, and... 3) 13860. Cooley, Mason. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:13860 QUOTATION:Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know. ATTRIBUTION:Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth... 4) 5639. Barr Arnold, Roseanne. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:5639 QUOTATION:Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. ATTRIBUTION:Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century),... 5) 49227. Sexton, Anne. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:49227 QUOTATION:For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure. ATTRIBUTION:Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Fourth Psalm."... 6) 40107. Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]. The Columbia World of Quotations.
1996 ...NUMBER:40107 QUOTATION:Birth means nothing where there is no virtue. ATTRIBUTION:Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Dom Juan's... 7) 28581. Hoffer, Eric. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:28581 QUOTATION:The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind-the mind of a fighter-in which the virtues... 8) 65510. Wordsworth, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:65510 QUOTATION:Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:... 9) 48376. Satta, Salvatore. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:48376 QUOTATION:The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the... 10) 66626. Young, Edward. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:66626 QUOTATION:Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ATTRIBUTION:Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran... |