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Quotes of the Day for 22 October 2004 - Beginning

James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, carefully studied the Old Testament and calculated that the universe was created on this day in 4004 BC. This beginning of all things was such an important event that it may not make any difference that the devout scholar was a few billion years off. (Of course, most things that are begun are also ended, so it's neatly symmetrical that Adventist leader William Miller carefully reviewed the scriptures and concluded that the world as we know it would end on this day in 1844.) Today's theme is Beginning.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

Things are always at their best in the beginning.
     - Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

The only joy in the world is to begin.
     - Cesare Pavese, 1908 - 1950

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
     - Horace

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
     - John Galsworthy, 1867 - 1933

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
     - Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, 1790 - 1869

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