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Aquinas St. Thomas 1225-1274

The End of every maker is himself.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

The Avancement of Learning

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if  he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Beckett Samuel 1906-1989

There's never an end for the sea.

Brockway George

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an  ulterior end, but an end in itself.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„The Last Ride Together"

Who knows but the world may end tonight?

Busenbaum Hermann 1600-1668

Medulla Theologiae Moralis

The end justifies the means.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

(of the Battle of Egypt)

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Clare John 1793-1864

„Child Harold"

Hopeless hope hopes on and meets no end,
Wastes without springs and homes without a friend.

Clive Lord 1725-1774

(when his pistol twice failed to fire)

I feel that I am reserved for some end or other.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

Four Quartets „East Coker"

In my beginning is my end.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

Four Quartets „Little Gidding"

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

Godard Jean-Luc 1930-

„Movies should have a beginning, a middle  and an end," harrumphed French film maker Georges Fraju ... „Certainly," replied Jean-Luc Godard. „But not necessarily in that order."

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Ends and Means

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Larkin Philip 1922-1985

(novel formula)

A beginning, a muddle, and an end.

Lloyd George David 1863-1945

(of World War I)

At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most  terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that  thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

Luce Clare Booth 1903-1987

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587

(motto)

En ma fin git mon commencement.

In my end is my beginning.

Meredith George 1828-1909

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's  activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Mill John Stuart 1806-1873

On Liberty

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.

Mottoes and Slogans

(pacifist slogan)

A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end.

Nehru Jawaharlal 1889-1964

„Basic Approach"

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Ogilvy James 1664-1730

(as he signed the Act of Union)

Now there's ane end of ane old song.

Proverbs and Sayings

Dutch

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

Rorem Ned 1923-

The Paris Diary if Ned Rorem

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair. In America they end it.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry IV, Part 2

Let the end try the man.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Troilus and Cressida

The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 60

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.

Stoppard Tom 1937-

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Talleyrand Charles Maurice de 1754-1838

(announcing Napoleon's defeat at Borodino)

This is the beginning of the end.

Turgenev Ivan 1818-1823

Fathers and Sons

Just try and set death aside. It sets you aside, and that's the end of it!

Tusser Thomas c. 1524-1580

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,
But housewives' affairs have never an end.

Virgil 70-19 BC

Aeneid

O you who have borne even heavier things, God  will grant an end to these too.

Wells H.G. 1866-1946

The war that will end war.

White T.H. 1906-1964

The Sword in the Stone

But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live Backwards from in front.

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