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Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring. — Khalil Gibran

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go. — Robert M. Pirsig

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. — Tertullian

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man. — Victor Hugo

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights. — Mary Frances Berry

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. — Annie Besant

That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy. — Marissa Doyle

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. — Charles Macklin

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. — Horace

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. — Bill Moyers

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. — Hosea Ballou

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance. — Chris Heimerdinger

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton

Peace the offspring is of Power. — Bayard Taylor

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? — Charles Spurgeon

Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice. — Maya Angelou

This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength. — Gary Shteyngart

Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond. — Thomas Hardy

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. — Rebecca Goldstein

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky

In a culture that worshipped its ancestors, to die without offspring was next of kin to damnation. — Joseph Duncan

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. — Oscar Wilde

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell. — Christian Scriver

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation. — Benjamin Franklin

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation. — Charles Lyell

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene. — James Allen

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness. — Donald E. Williams Jr.

Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, — Anonymous

We are offspring of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate. — G.A. Aiken

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. — Hosea Ballou

21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape. — Anonymous

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. — Tony Robbins

Even an aardvarks think their offspring are beautiful — Roger Penrose

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. — Karl Marx

No horror on earth or elsewhere could equal watching your own offspring open his mouth and have nothing come out. — David Foster Wallace

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours. — Alexander Grothendieck

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. — Phyllis McGinley

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. — James Madison

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. — George Bernard Shaw

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. — T.F. Hodge

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced. — John Hurt

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. — Achy Obejas

Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates. — Carol Shields

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. — St. John Climacuslimacus

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. — Johannes Kepler

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce

Slavery is the offspring of darkness. — Simon Bolivar

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees. — Chanakya

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Benjamin Disraeli

Satan's inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin. — Tomichan Matheikal

I think I might have seen pride in Dad's eyes. Or maybe it was just a gleam of Why is my offspring so insane? — Rachel Hawkins

Life is the offspring of death. — Moses Harvey

Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow. — The Offspring

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. — Lynn Margulis

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. — William Winwood Reade

On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring — Richard Kadrey

The play you're referring to. It's Pygmalion. My Fair Lady is just its bastard offspring. I — Jojo Moyes

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. — Chanakya

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. — Miguel De Unamuno

There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring. — Debra Webb

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. — John Lydon

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! — John Milton

If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring. — Larissa Ione

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn — David Nicholls

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. — John Lancaster Spalding

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. — Napoleon Hill

The future is the offspring of the present;
the present is the offspring of the past. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Calumny is the offspring of Envy. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this. — P.G. Wodehouse

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. — Kendrick Lamar

Fear is fertile and rage is its offspring.. — Stephen King

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those — Anne Bishop

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. — John Milton

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. — Charles Davenport

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. — Rachel Sklar

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions. — Mark Twain

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. — John Armstrong

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. — Anonymous

Byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does. — Gail Carson Levine

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler

Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality. — Jen Lancaster