Begets Quotes

164 quotes by 137 authors

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. — Aeschylus
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer. — Jim Cymbala
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that… — Douglas MacArthur
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous… — James Madison
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
Remorse begets reform. — William Cowper
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
Solitude begets whimsies. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make… — Honore de Balzac
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. — Hippocrates
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is… — William Penn
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov

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