Spring, William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (I, iii, 84-87)

Beginning, Danish proverb

Af god begyndelse haabes god endelse.

Idiomatic translation: A good beginning makes a good ending.

- Danish proverb

Meaning: Just trying something is a great way in order to solve a problem.
Strauss, Emanuel (1998). Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 0415160502.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Danish_proverbs

Advice, Book of Proverbs

Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parentage.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 6

Past, Aaron Hotchner from Criminal Minds

Hotch: Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal minds, The Angel Maker [4.2]

Past, Wendell Berry

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

- Wendell Berry (1934- )

Work, Chinese Proverb

空行空返。

- 中國俗談

No song, no supper.

- Chinese Proverb

Money, Juvenal

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

- Juvenal