I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. – Arabic Proverb
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity. – Arabic Proverb
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron