Giving Birth

Famous quotes containing the words giving and/or birth:

“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)