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Quotations
 | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 14 likes |
 | Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 14 likes |
 | The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 13 likes |
 | Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | I was bored. That's how it began. She bored me, that's how it ended. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 6 likes |
 | It ain’t over till it’s over. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 5 likes |
 | The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
 | At the end of my suffering there was a door. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 4 likes |
 | Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | “Now I understand,” said the last man. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | If I prove a bad president, I will also likely to prove the last president. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 2 likes |
 | If we don't end war, war will end us. — H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, British writer 2 likes |
 | From the end spring new beginnings. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 2 likes |
 | A human being is like a novel. You don’t know how it will end until the last page, otherwise it’s not worth reading. |
 | Plotinus is both an end and a beginning: an end as regards the Greeks, a beginning as regards Christendom. |
 | Eternity is a long time ... especially towards the end. |
 | Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit. |
 | If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. |
 | It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. |
| The love of form is a love of endings. |
 | It is easier to get into something than to get out of it. |
 | Love starts with the head, and it ends with three small drops in the pee pipe. |
 | Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. |
 | A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke. |
 | Books end. Stories never end. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love. |
 | In love, it’s enough to be the last. Not the first. |
 | At the beginning of love, lovers talk about the future; towards the end, they talk about the past. |
Latin Quotes
 | Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over! Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est! — Augustus, 63 BC-14 AD, Roman Emperor (a little before his death) 53 likes |
 | All hours wound, the last one kills. Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. — Medieval Sundial motto 52 likes |
 | The end crowns the work. Finis coronat opus. (i.e. a work can be judged only after it is finished or how is finished) 49 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 8 likes |
 | Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 5 likes |
 | O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | In the end, there is no end. |
Funny Quotes
 | What keeps me alive is that I don’t want to miss the end of the world. — Altan, 1942-, Italian comics artist & satirist 2 likes |
 | I'm glad life is short. I find it very reassuring. I have a phobia of things that never end. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Count no man happy until the end is known. Μηδένα προ του τέλους μακάριζε. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher (to Croesus, king of Lydia) 14 likes |
 | No mortal can be fortunate until his end. Θνητών όλβιος εις το τέλος ουδείς. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 11 likes |
 | Everything comes from earth and everything ends in earth. Εκ γαίης γαρ πάντα και εις γην πάντα τελευτά. — Xenophanes, 570-480 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Everything in the past is judged by the outcome of the last event. Προς γαρ το τελευταίον εκβάν, έκαστον των πριν υπαρξάντων κρίνεται. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | All is well that ends well. 4 likes |
| All good things must come to an end. 3 likes |
