A Quote by A. C. Benson

A well begun is half ended.

A. C. Benson

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Begun Ended Half Well

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A. C. Benson
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April 24, 1862 - June 17, 1925

A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

John Keats

What's well begun is half done.

Horace

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

Austin O'Malley

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Plato

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

Soren Kierkegaard

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

Polybius

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

Emile M. Cioran

My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.

Hannah Simone

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

C. S. Lewis

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

Kim Novak

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Hermann Hesse

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

Charles Lyell

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Michael Korda

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