Begets

Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One sin begets another, and it cannot be imagined how much mischief is produced: there is every evil work. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Unrighteousness is unto sin; the sinful acts confirm and strengthen the sinful habits; one sin begets another; it is like the letting forth of water, therefore leave it before it be meddled with. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Honest discourse is good; name-calling begets name-calling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ane ill word begets another, and it were at at the Bridge at _London_. ❋ Pappity Stampoy (N/A)

And in the life which is begotten of life, i.e. in the essence which is born of essence, seeing that it is not born unlike (and that because life is of life), He keeps in Himself a nature wholly similar to His original, because there is no diversity in the likeness of the essence that is born and that begets, that is, of the life which is possessed and which has been given. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

Or, as it is in the churning of milk and the wringing of the nose, that is done by force which otherwise would not be done, so the spirit is heated by degrees with strong passions; one angry word begets another, and that a third; one passionate debate makes work for another, and so it goes on till it ends at length in irreconcilable feuds. ❋ Unknown (1721)

I fall too without premeditation or design; the first word begets the second, and so to the end of the chapter. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

God has a masculine or fatherly realtionship to creation i.e., a father "begets" whereas a mother "bears". ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2007)

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- When Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick chooses the adjective "important" to describe his football program's 2009 season, and when he's asked to elaborate on that choice, it kind of begets another question. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Violence begets violence till somebody surrenders or flees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sportsmen are intimately in touch with natural order - death begets life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because transparency begets more transparency, and open information is the only antidote to the instincts of both corporate and government entities to hide it behind walls, or firewalls. ❋ Cliff Schecter (2011)

[honesty] [on the net] begets me ❋ Still Bored (2008)

[Jess]: Hey Jake, come over tonight we have some [beget]! Jake: Sure! I’ll [bring some] beget too! ❋ Zenfire (2019)

Tom: "So, are you still sleeping with [salad girl]?" Pat: "Yeah, but I also banged her sorority sister last night and her roomate on Thursday." Tom: "Wow, so the [dry spell] is over, pussy begets pussy. We should call you [the Jackhammer]." ❋ The Real Blue Juice (2010)