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If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.] - Unattributed Author, Gestoe Romanorum (tale LXVII) It ain't over till it's over. - Yogi Berra Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. VII, v. 36) Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).] - Chilo of Sparta (Chilon), a translation of his saying Deed done is well begun. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri") This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), The Hollow Men He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole. - Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. - Robert Herrick, Hesperides (340) Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. IV, III) A dead end street is a good place to turn around. - Naomi Judd We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (III, 5) In my end is my beginning. - Mary, Queen of Scots The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la chose.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Tartuffe (III, 1) The end must justify the means. - Matthew Prior, Hans Carvel (l. 67) The end crowns all. - Proverb, (Dutch) By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends. [Fr., Par les memes voies on ne va pas toujours aux memes fins.] - Abbe Saint-Real Every hour has its end. - Sir Walter Scott Let the end try the man. - William Shakespeare All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at IV, iv) The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at IV, v) Look to the end of a long life. - Solon, words said to Croesus It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." - Thomas Starkey, England in the Reign of Henry VIII (bk. I, ch. III, 33)
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