Birth     

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"

Life

"Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

 "Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

 "Life is wasted on the living."

 "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

 "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

 "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."

 "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

 "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"All life is an experiment."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."

 "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

-William James 

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

and things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art; to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul."

 "Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."

 "May you live every day of your life."

Marriage, Men & Women

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person."

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher."

"In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day."

Death

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead."

-Anon. 

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

-Italian Proverb 

"And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead."

-Matthew 8:21-22 

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

-Epicurus 

 "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."

-Medgar Evers 

 "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet" 

 "Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

-Gary Mark Gilmore 

 "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

-Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-Albert Pike 

 "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

-Josef Stalin 

 "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

-Mark Twain, After reading his own obituary, June 2, 1897 

 "The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."

-John Allston 

 "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."

-Johann von Schiller