“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Melanippe the Wise (fragment)
Variant: A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”
Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
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