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Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait read more
Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us read more
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il read more
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui
coute.]
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
[Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit
Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.]