Beginnings Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Beginnings


What’s well begun, is half done. Horace.	1
The principal part of everything is the beginning. Law Maxim.	2
Whatever begins, also ends. Seneca.	3
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. Mme. du Deffand.	4
The beginnings of all things are small. Cicero.	5
Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. Schiller.	6
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. Ausonius.	7
Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. Ovid.	8
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. Quintilian.	9
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. Ovid.	10
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. Ausonius.	11