... only love begets love.

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more…

— James Heckman

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

— John F. Kennedy

Energy begets energy.

— Dolly Parton

War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature…

— Lisa Simeone

Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.

— Enoch

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget…

— Edan Lepucki

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

— Alec Baldwin

“Prayer begets peace.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“One evil begets another and another.”

— Bronwen Griffiths

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

— Horace

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Fortunately work begets work.

— Patrick Warburton

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

— Munshi Premchand