Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content… — Plato Copy Share Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness. — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does… — Allison Jones Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else;… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
