There are no illegitimate babies.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

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

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.