BEGINNING

Related Subjects: Cause, End

1. The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.—ARISTOTLE, Politics
   

2. It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.—BOSSUET, Pensees Chritiennes et Morales
   

3. My way is to begin with the beginning.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. The beginnings of all things are small.—CICERO, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
   

5. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.—EURIPIDES, Aeolus
   

6. He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.—HORACE, Epistles
   

7. Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.—OVID, Remedia Amoris
   

8. The beginning is the most im­portant part of the work.—PLATO, The Republic
   

9. He who commences many things finishes but few.Proverb
   

10. Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

11. Whatever begins, also ends.—SENECA, De Consolatione ad Polybium
    

12. Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth