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• We are born crying, live complaining, die disappointed.
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
  Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -- Old Indian saying...
• When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Thumb the Great, Act i, Sc. 3...
• When [Jack Kennedy] ran for office the first time, he carried a loose-leaf book of quotations around with him.
  One of them was from his father. "More men die of jealousy than of cancer," it read....
• When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon vii, 3...
• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• To live and die in scenes like this, With some we 've left behind us.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- As slow our Ship...
• I stood on the leading edge, The eastern seaboard at my feet.
  "Jump!" said Yoko Ono I'm too scared and good-looking, I cried....
• I 've lost a day!"--the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 99...