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A scraped writing tablet. [Lat., Tabula rasa.] - Proverb, (Latin) While we deliberate about beginning, it is already too late to begin. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.] - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), De Institutione Oratoria (V, 10) There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Marie Rilke Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Consolatione ad Polybium (I) To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (prologue at V, i) Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii) Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii) Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. - George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Robert Louis Stevenson The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] - ascribed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Hundred Days Every minute starts an hour. - Unknown The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde, Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), L'Indiscret (I, i) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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