Familiarity breeds contempt — and children. – Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. – Malcolm Potts, MD

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H.L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. – Dora Winifred Black Russell