Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Martin Buber
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
I am not a big reader to begin with.
Billy Burke
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there... →
Ken Burns
You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Edmund Husserl