"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

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"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Beginning, End, Words

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Beginning, Difference, End

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Beginning, End

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Beginning, Wickedness

"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Beginning, End, Fall, Hope

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Beginning, Problem, Simplicity, Greatness, Complexity

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Beginning, Development, Infancy, Stage, Growth

"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Beginning, Study

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, Idleness, Vice

"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair."

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"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

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"Be quick to learn and wise to know."

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair."

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up."

"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill."