Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams

Improvement begins with I.
Arnold H. Glasow

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster