When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Albert Pike

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Lec