Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696
Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not
conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Sweeney Agonistes
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
„The Gods of the Copybook Headings"
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.
With the birth of each child you lose two novels.
The Magic Mountain
We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.
Lettres Persanes
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
„Ode"
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
Richard I I
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.
Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.
Hymns for Infant Minds „A Child's Hymn of Praise"
I thank the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me, in these Christian days,
A happy English child.
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Who breaks his birth's invidious bar,
And graps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance,
And grapples with his evil star.
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents.From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. Froom 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
