End

For other uses, see Ends.

An End or Ending, in general use, is the termination of something, whether that something is an object, action, effort or a life. In philosophy and ethics, an end is the ultimate goal in a series of steps.

Quotes

• A morning Sun, and a Wine-bred child, and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.
  • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• This is The End; my only friend, The End.
  • Jim Morrison, "The End", The Doors (recorded August 1966; released January 4, 1967).

• All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
  Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
  • William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act IV, scene 4, line 35. Finis coronat opus. Proverb in Lehmann's Florilegium Politicum, etc. (1630). La Fin courronnera le tout. French saying.

• The end crowns all;
  And that old common arbitrator, Time,
  Will one day end it.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 5, line 224.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 220-21.

• Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.
  • Ecclesiasticus, VII. 36.

• Finem respice (or Respice finem).
  • Have regard to the end.
  • Translation of Chilo's saying.

• He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
  • Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad.

• Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.
  • If the end be well, all will be well.
  • Gestæ Romanorum, Tale LXVII.

• It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
  • Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 340.

• Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.
  • Homer, The Iliad, Book IV, III.

• En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
  • We ought to consider the end in everything.
  • Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, III. 5.

• Et le chemin est long du projet à la chose.
  • The road is long from the project to its completion.
  • Molière, Le Tartuffe, III. 1.

• The end must justify the means.
  • Matthew Prior, Hans Carvel, line 67.

• Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux mêmes fins.
  • By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.
  • St. Real.

• Look to the end of a long life.
  • Solon's words to Crœsus.

• It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."
  • Thomas Starkey, England in the Reign of Henry VIII, Book I, Chapter III. 33.