“Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
Colley Cibber (1671–1757) British poet laureate
The Double Gallant, prologue (1707).
“Ending is better than mending.”
— Aldous Huxley, book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
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Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
Roses From my Friends
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“And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.”
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Context: Who are you and who am I
To say we know the reason why
Some are born, some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky?
There'll be war, there'll be peace,
But everything one day will cease,
All the iron turned to rust,
All the proud men turned to dust,
And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"A Song On the End of the World" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19195
“Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
book Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes 7:8
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)
“Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 2
“Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist