Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
Thomas Dekker

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding

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

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.'
Immanuel Kant

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Thomas Mann

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus

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: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney

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.
Charles Darwin

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields

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

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Virgil

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke

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

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

Work begets work.
Brion James