Quotes Primer Prompts TOC

Beginning

Alpha, commencement, dawning, genesis, onset, start, inception, origin

QUOTES

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
 Virgil
 -40

Haste in every business brings failures (Haste makes waste).
 Herodotus
 -455

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.
 Cato
 -200

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
 Plato
 -400

Seize the day. Put no trust in the morrow.
 Horace
 Referred to in the movie Dead Poets’ Society, -35

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
 Indira Gandhi
 

Well begun is half done.
 Aristotle
 -350

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
 Euripides
 -407

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
 Lao-Tzu
 -550

See Also

References

History
  • Romulus and Remus
  • Jamestown 1607, Plymouth 1620
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775
  • Pearl Harbor 1941
  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 1914
  • Fort Sumter 1861

    Arts & Science

  • Inertia and the laws of motion

    Literature

  • Shakespeare: Hamlet




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