As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
Pythagoras, as quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Misattributed
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”
Honoré de Balzac book Séraphîta
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html) <br class="br">Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. <br class="br">Source: Their Finest Hour
“My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.”
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1935] 1948) p. 94.
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
Muller is often attributed with a version of this saying, and the quote (with attribution to Muller) appears as early as 1897 in The Churchman https://books.google.com/books?id=cpdOAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA25-PA45&lpg=RA25-PA45&dq=The+beginning+of+anxiety+is+the+end+of+faith,+and+the+beginning+of+true+faith+is+the+end+of+anxiety+%2B+the+churchman&source=bl&ots=3x_wtX82mF&sig=gGHZUKxXWa5BfvRfzeY_F8zA9dM&hl=; however, no source written by Muller can be found to confirm him as having said this.
