I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. Thomas Browne
Of children as of procreation – the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. Evelyn Waugh
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. Desiderius Erasmus
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. Walter Benjamin