An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

True love stories never have endings.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

If you want a happy ending, that depends of course on where you stop your story.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I existed from all eternity and behold, I am here, and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

You are not a beautiful unique snowflake... This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things, than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork and the other is nostalgia.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end, but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Delays have dangerous ends.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

If patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong you'll end wrong.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.