It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
Home is where one starts from.
The end is in the beginning.