Sayings about Endings
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. ~ Saying
Everything has an end. ~ Tanzanian Proverbs
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Who wills the end, wills the means. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs
The end justifies the means. ~ Traditional Proverb
Anger ends in cruelty. ~ Indian Proverbs
He who believes his wife too much will regret it in the end. ~ French Proverb
An animal’s end is slaughter. ~ Yiddish Proverb
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who follows advice from women will end up in hell. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Only death itself can end our hope. ~ Arabian Proverb
The longest day soon comes to an end. ~ Traditional Proverb
The happiest life ends before death. ~ Chinese Proverb
The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow. ~ Dutch Proverb
Regret, like a tail, comes at the end. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
Everything has an end with the exception of God. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels. ~ Chinese Proverb
All’s well that ends well. ~ Traditional Proverb
A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end–and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He, who always wants the last word, ends up talking to himself. ~ Breton Proverb
War ends nothing. ~ Congolese Proverbs
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. ~ Spanish Proverbs
When your wine is finished, conversation ends; when your money has been spent, you lose your friends. ~ Serbian Proverbs
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later. ~ Traditional Proverb
A thief’s end is hanging. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Everything has an end except a sausage, which has two. ~ Danish Proverbs
All good things must come to an end. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everything ends in weeping. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Quotations about Ending
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning. ~ Ivy Baker Priest
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. ~ Caius Cornelius Gallus
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. ~ Yoshida Kenko
The beginning is the promise of the end. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. ~ Louisa May Alcott
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing. ~ Author Unknown
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. ~ Edward Eggleston
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that’s now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. ~ Conrad Aiken
Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding. ~ Herbert Spencer
In my beginning is my end. ~ T. S. Eliot
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ~ George Orwell
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. ~ Quintilian
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. ~ Alexis Dupuy
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.~ Lewis Carroll
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. ~ Winston Churchill
Begin with the end in mind. ~ Stephen R. Covey
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ~ Robert Frost
It’s not over until it’s over. ~ Yogi Berra
The happy ending is our national belief. ~ Mary McCarthy
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end. ~ Alcmaeon
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends. ~ Tom Cruise
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. ~ Henry James
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning. ~ Henrietta Zolde
Whatever begins, also ends. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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