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Quotes about End


Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.

Unattributed Bible

Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]

Chilo of Sparta (Chilon)

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot)

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]

George Herbert

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

Robert Herrick

We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]

Jean de la Fontaine

In my end is my beginning.

Jean de la Fontaine

The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

The end crowns all.

Matthew Proverb

By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends. [Fr., Par les memes voies on ne va pas toujours aux memes fins.]

Matthew Proverb

All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Look to the end of a long life.

William Solon

It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."

Thomas Starkey

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

Albert Einstein

What can't be cured, must be endured.

Albert Proverb

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Henry Tuckerman

His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's for else.

Thomas Adams

Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]

Pierre Jean de Beranger

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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