Beginnings

"End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."

"What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world."

"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'"

"In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens."

"Like the legend of the Phoenix All ends with beginnings What keeps the planets spinning (uh) The force from the beginning."

"La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte."

"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."

"Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil."

"All beginnings are very troublesome things."

"Nothing great has great beginnings."

"The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead."

"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."

"The true beginning of our end."

"Incipe; dimidium facti est cœpisse. Supersit Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies."

"Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars."

"Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coûte à vaincre la pudeur."

"Omnium rerum principia parva sunt."

"Dimidium facti qui cœpit habet."

"Cœpisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt."

"Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur, Cum mala per longas convaluere moras."

"Deficit omne quod nascitur."

"Quidquid cœpit, et desinit."

"C'est le commencement de la fin."

"Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde, Est celui dont dépend le reste de nos jours."