"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."

Beginning, Children, Day, End

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"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."

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

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, Idleness, Vice

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Beginning, Mansion, Forest, Harvest, Ocean

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Beginning, First, Understanding

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

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Beginning, End

"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

"In my beginning is my end."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Beginning, End

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Beginning, Study

"I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it."

Jason Isaacs, English Actor

Beginning, Comedy, First, Romantic

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

Beginning, Woman

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Beginning, Imperfection, Growth, Progress, Action

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

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"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."

Happiness

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

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"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

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

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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

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

"In my beginning is my end."

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

"I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it."

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Explore more quotes by Thornton Wilder

"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."

"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."

"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."

"A play visibly represents pure existing."

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."