From the beginning.

Such a beginning, such an ending. [ Proverb ]

From the beginning (from the egg).

From the cradle, from the beginning.

Love is vanity,
Selfish in its beginning as its end. [ Byron ]

The fool is always beginning to live. [ Proverb ]

A good beginning makes a good ending. [ Proverb ]

A bad ending follows a bad beginning. [ Euripides ]

The soul,
Though made in time, survives for aye;
And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. [ Sir J. Davies ]

The first breath is the beginning of death. [ Proverb ]

Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. [ Bailey ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. [ Bible ]

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [ Quintilian ]

Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The principal part of everything is the beginning. [ Law Maxim ]

The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. [ Proverb ]

A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse, ending. [ Proverb ]

Men marry to make an end; women, to make a beginning. [ A. Dupuy ]

Full of ardour at the beginning, careless at the end. [ Tac ]

In the beginning, passions obey; later, they command. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. [ Lamartine ]

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. [ Anon ]

Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning. [ Proverb ]

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. [ Lacordaire ]

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment. [ R. W. Emerson ]

Bad beginnings have bad endings (a bad end of a bad beginning). [ Ter ]

What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. [ Spanish Proverb ]

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. [ Italian Proverb ]

We are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning. [ Manilius ]

Better come at the latter end of a feast, than the beginning of a fray. [ Proverb ]

Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. [ Goethe ]

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. [ Confucius ]

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. [ Swift ]

If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. [ Philip Henry ]

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [ Ausonius ]

The preface in the beginning makes the whole book the better to be conceived. [ Tryphiodorus ]

God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning. [ Ward Beecher ]

Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things. [ Bacon ]

We are born but to die (die in being born), and our end hangs on to our beginning. [ Manilius ]

A true knight is fuller of gay bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

That which had no force in the beginning can gain no strength from the lapse of time. [ Law Maxim ]

The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning. [ Pascal ]

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness. [ Dean Stanley ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [ Bible ]

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. [ Bible ]

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

From the beginning and to the end of time, love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic. [ John Ruskin ]

I have been too much occupied with things themselves to think either of their beginning or their end. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [ La Bruyere ]

There is an English song beginning, Love knocks at the door. He knocks less often than he finds it open. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]

It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. [ From the Latin ]

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man. [ Chamfort ]

The beginning and the decline of love manifest themselves in the embarrassment that one feels in the tête-à-tête. [ La Bruyere ]

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. [ Madame de Stael ]

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; He shall yet unravel all. [ Alexander Smith ]

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. [ Addison ]

In describing things, I always try to see the whole scene before beginning to write it, and specially to realise the colour of everything. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, so they must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [ Sallust ]

One should never take sides in anything - taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly after, and the human being becomes a bore. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The head learns new things, but the heart forevermore practices old experiences. Therefore our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

In love, the importance lies in the beginning. The world knows well that whoever takes one step will take more: it is important, then, to take the first step well. [ Fontanelle ]

Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]

In the moral world nothing is lost, as in the material world nothing is annihilated. All our thoughts and all our sentiments here below, are but the beginning of sentiments and thoughts that will be finished elsewhere. [ Joubert ]

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals, - so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs. [ Lowell ]

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]