love begets love
love begets love
proverb If you show love, kindness, and goodwill toward someone, it will typically cause them to behave in a similar way to yourself or to others. I feel like we as a people are losing the notion that love begets love these days, choosing instead to attack or criticize other people as our default reaction. I've always taken the stance that love begets love, and, in my own experience, anyway, it has always borne out to be true.
See also: beget, love
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
Love begets love.
Prov. If you behave lovingly to other people, they will behave lovingly to you. Child: I hate Tammy! She's always mean to me. Father: If you're nicer to her, maybe she'll change her ways. Love begets love.
See also: beget, love
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- beget
- teach a man to fish
- village
- it takes a village
- burnt
- a burnt child dreads the fire
- a man is judged by the company he keeps
- a man is known by the company he keeps
- bad workers always blame their tools
- better bend than break