The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
Hard Lines,'Autres Be"  tes,  Autres Moeurs'.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Journalentry,16 Nov. InBradfordTorrey and F H Allen (eds) TheJournals of Henry DavidThoreau (1906).

A fertile pedant.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
Of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Quoted in NicholasT ParsonsTheJoy of BadVerse (1988).