Life is the offspring of death. [ Moses Harvey ]
Peace the offspring is of power. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Time's noblest offspring is the last. [ Berkeley ]
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. [ Sydney Smith ]
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born. [ Milton ]
Love is the offspring of chance: its nurse is habit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The offspring of those that are very young or very old lasts not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring! [ Milton ]
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
An affectionate mother wishes that her offspring may be wiser and better than herself. [ Horace ]
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. [ L'Estrange ]
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? [ Sir P. Sidney ]
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. [ Colton ]
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]