The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Ernest Hemingway

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

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

Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
Ann Coulter

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
Dennis Miller

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke