Begets Quotes

164 quotes by 137 authors

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within… — Criss Jami
So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come… — Anthony Mackie
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to… — Soong May-ling
I think work begets work. — Adam Baldwin
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses;… — Henry R. Towne
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of… — Michel de Montaigne
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. — William Shakespeare
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see. — John Dryden
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. — Robert Southey
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. — Francis Quarles
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. — Abraham Cowley
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A J Muste
Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust. — James Cash Penney
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. — Emile M. Cioran
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the… — Izaak Walton
I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing. — John Kapelos

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