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A hard beginning maketh a good ending. -- John Heywood
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. -- Bill Walsh
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -- John Galsworthy
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. -- Elizabeth Bowen
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning. -- Henrietta Szold
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. -- Henry Ward Beecher
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. -- Robert Ballard
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. -- Oscar Wilde
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. -- Lev Grossman
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. -- Anna Quindlen
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story. -- Alex Graves
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. -- Gilda Radner
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings. -- Aidan Chambers
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. -- Jeff Lemire
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. -- Baltasar Gracian
The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. -- Tony Gilroy
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. -- Nicole Ari Parker
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired. -- Melissa Rosenberg
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Still ending, and beginning still. -- William Cowper
Ending lending is beginning winning. -- Mark Kostabi
A bad ending follows a bad beginning. -- Euripides
From every ending comes a new beginning. -- Lurlene McDaniel
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending. -- James Richardson
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending. -- Stephen Richards
Love has a beginning but love has no ending. -- Debasish Mridha
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses -- Bill Walsh
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. -- George Eliot
Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending. -- Julian of Norwich
While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning! -- Howard Schultz
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise. -- Gillian Shields
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending. -- David Bayles
Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life -- Cornelia Connelly
A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending. -- R.J. Gonzales
I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending. -- William Monahan
Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving. -- Chip Heath
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning -- William Bridges
Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning. -- Felix Klein
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment. -- Robert Altman
The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. -- T. E. Lawrence
I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending. -- Amit Kalantri
Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning. -- Lisa Kleypas
I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending. -- Jaejoong
Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.) -- Marianne Williamson
Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending. -- Federico Fellini
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. -- Damon Lindelof
The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death. -- Cate Tiernan
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem -- Elizabeth Bowen
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. -- Jack Kornfield
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. -- C. S. Lewis
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. -- Khalil Gibran
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? -- Mitch Albom
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. -- Rajneesh
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending. -- David Jeremiah
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning. -- James Clavell
The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. -- Jeet Thayil
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. -- Neil Gaiman
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. -- Ken Burns
Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter -- Thomas S. Monson
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. -- Daniel Handler
Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I, Kotoko AiharaNow Kotoko Iriehave finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning. -- Kaoru Tada
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending. -- Robin Morgan
If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Let me tell you a few things about regret. There is no end to it. Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? -- Janet Fitch
Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went. -- A. S. Byatt
Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? -- Tahir Shah
Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home~? -- Tahir Shah

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