“Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end.”
The benign catastrophist (2003)
Context: Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.
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“Call no day fortunate till it be ended.”
Nulla dies felix
The Fifth Queen Crowned

“Go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.”
Proverbs 7.
Commentaries

On tax-funded art: National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998) (concurring).
1990s

“Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.”
The last line of each stanza
This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land
Prothalamion (1596)

“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.