"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra, attributed

"The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." - Dan Cook, in Washington Post

"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 7:8

"Nothing so difficult as a beginning
In poesy, unless perhaps the end."
- LORD BYRON, Don Juan

"The opera ain't over `til the fat lady sings." - ODAN COOK, in Washington Post

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending." - JOHN HEYWOOD, Proverbs

"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished." - MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditationsq