Begets Quotes Page 2

Remorse begets reform.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

Kindness begets kindness.

Unfortunately, violence begets violence.

And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body.

No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Violence begets violence by whomever used.

War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty.

What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things;

it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion;

the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our own memories. Remember that, as in any pool, when we cast one pebble we will see many, many concentric circles. One memory begets another and then another, building into stories.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.