Begins

Famous quotes containing the word begins:

    Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    Heaven lies about us in our infancy ... and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    One begins to mistrust very clever people when they get embarrassed.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)