The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
Anonymous
Child: Mamma, are Tories born wicked, or do they go wicked afterwards?
Mother: They are born wicked, and grow worse.
Assisi St Francis of 1181-1226
‘Prayer of St Francis'
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Death'
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant,
perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Job ch.5 v.7
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Blake William 1757-1983
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
Bogart Humphrey 1899-1957
in In A Lonely Place
"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
Boorstin Daniel J.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Bradley F.H. 1846-1924
In all of us, the excited amateur has to die before the artist can be born.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
‘The Age of Bronze'
For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Man, my Lord, is a being born to believe.
Dryden John 1631-1700
Palamon and Arcite
Since every man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond
our care.
EDGEWORTH Maria 1768-1849
Leonora
What a misfortune it is to be born a woman! ...
Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that
our wretchedness is irremediable?
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
Gay John 1685-1732
‘Polly'
No, sir, tho' I was born and bred in England, I can dare to be poor, which is the only thing now-a-days men are ashamed of.
George III King 1738-1820
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
Hood Thomas 1799-1845
‘I Remember'
I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn.
Lackington James 1746-1815
Memoirs
At last, by singing and repeating enthusiastic amorous hymns, and ignorantly applying particular texts of scripture, I got my imagination
to the proper pitch, and thus was I born again in an instant.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
‘A Glance Behind the Curtain'
No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will:
And blessèd are the horny hands of toil!
Lowell Robert 1917-1977
„Tenth Muse"
But I suppose even God was born too late to trust the old religion - all those settings out that never left the ground, beginning in wisdom, dying in doubt.
Montague C.E. 1867-1928
Fiery Particles
I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies.