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;void(0)) . . . BIRTH see also: "ABORTION" see below: "BIRTHDAYS" see also: "LIFE" see "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links Having a baby is like taking your bottom lip and pulling it over your head. --Carol Burnett (1934- ) American television actress Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. (telegram to Mrs. Sherwood on the arrival of her baby.) --Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American critic and humorist, in Alexander Woolcott _While Rome Burns_ [1934] When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, _King Lear_ [1605-1606] 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added - 'I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.' --Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American writer and philanthropist, [sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher] _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ [1852] ch. 21 Augustus passed laws to tighten the sanctions against celibacy and to increase revenue, He failed, however, to make marriage and the raising of children more popular - childlessness was too attractive. --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55-c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian, _Annals_, bk. 3.25 ----- prepotency pree-POTE-n-see, noun: 1. The quality or condition of having superior power, influence, or force; predominance. 2. (Biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring. viviparous (vi-vip`a-rous) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.   BIRTH CONTROL . . see "SEX" see also: "ABORTION" A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said 'no'. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935 - ) American actor, writer and director, at a nightclub in Washington [April 1965] Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth. --Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918-2002) Novelist, poet, and comedian, _The Last Goon Show of All_ [1972] Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth. --Tertullian [Quintas Septimus Florens Tertullianus] (c. 155/160-after220) Early Christian theologian, polemicist, and moralist, _The Christian's Defense_ [c.215] . . see "AGE" for related links see "TIME" for related links A lady of 'a certain age,' which means Certainly aged. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788-1824) English Romantic poet and satirist, _Don Juan_ [1821], canto VI, st. 69 I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discrete: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself. --Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, _The Fall_ [1956] "...there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents--" "Certainly," said Alice. "And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!" --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) English writer and logician, _Through the Looking Glass_ [1872] What is there to celebrate? Birthdays are automatic things. Anyway, birthdays are for children. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist; won 1921 Nobel Prize for Photoelectric Effect, best known for Theories of Relativity; initiated U.S. nuclear program in WW II, in _New York Times_ [12 March 1944] I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it’s often the same message: They hope it’s my last. --Al Forman, National League umpire [baseball] "Time" [25 August 1961] She may very well pass for forty-three, In the dusk with a light behind her. --W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English writer of comic and satirical verse, _Trial by Jury _ [1875] The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek Epic Poet Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. --Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet, _To Mrs. M.B._ l. 9 Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita. --John Wagner "Maxine" cartoon end page | BABIES - BALLET | BANANAS - BARTENDERS | BASEBALL | BASTARDS - BEATLES (THE) | BEAUTY | BED - BEGINNINGS | BEHAVIOR - BELIEF | BENNY (JACK) - BIBLE | BICYCLES - BIRDS | BIRTH - BIRTHDAYS | BITTERNESS & BLAIR (TONY) | BLAME - BLOGGING | BLONDES - BOOK BURNING | BODY (THE) | BOOKS | BOOMERS (THE) - BORROWING | BOSTON & BOXING | BOYS - BREAKING UP | BREASTS - BRITAIN | BROADWAY - BUBBLES (ECONOMIC) | BUGS BUNNY - BUREAUCRACY | BURMA SHAVE - BUSYBODIES | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | |
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