Wise fear
Begets care. [ Proverb ]

Trust begets truth. [ Proverb ]

Money begets money. [ Proverb ]

Emulation begets emulation. [ Proverb ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. [ Longfellow ]

To speak of love begets love. [ Pascal ]

Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]

It is money that begets money. [ Proverb ]

A narrow mind begets obstinacy. [ Dryden ]

A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold that is put to use more gold begets. [ Shakespeare ]

Every age confutes old errors, and begets new. [ Proverb ]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]

A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. [ Proverb ]

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. [ Proverb ]

Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one another. [ Proverb ]

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]

Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. [ Proverb ]

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire. [ Swift ]

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

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]

Worth begets in base minds envy, but in brave souls emulation. [ Proverb ]

Every deed in the history of the world begets another deed in turn. [ Arnold Schlönbach ]

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. [ Thomas Decker ]

Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]

These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]

The art of putting well into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than true merit achieves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]

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. [ Colton ]

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. [ William Penn ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]