Do really good things have to come to an end? Or should it?

Those were all called as 'saying' and not proverb. A 'Saying' can comes from two (2) forms or types either a monoloque or soliloquy. Reading a 'saying' origination of saying and time of its related event will get its true meaning of it and not its definition and translation. About "All good things must come to an end", it justly like to tell and share about thing related to "The best won't stay long" in the connection with life development or any kind of technology. If and only if, ""All good things must stay forever", means there is no new development. My little conclusion, human saying comes from a monologue or soliloquy where its origin of source is a kind of shibboleth generated from various life elements; delectation, gadabout, flout, fecund, bowdlerize, sedulous, and sometimes from the apogee of achievement. My own and genuine saying for self-keyvation; Little Bit Little Do, Once Glitch Got To Redo.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and especially if the person beholding has been drinking! Yeah, all good things seem to come to an end in some form or another eventually because even if they weren't to actually cease, we can end up taking them for granted and lose our ability to continue to recognise their value. Oh the wonderfully flawed nature of us peeps!

Strangely the same thought crossed my mind a couple of months back that made me to raise the discussion' Are all the good things forever'? It is a good thing that we are thinking alike Mimpi.

Hi Mimpi! It is very true that one may person may look beautiful to me, but s/he may not appear beautiful to another person, it is a matter of choice and perception and you know choice always differs from person to person. Likewise, all good things come to end perhaps it means that anything which is ‘good’ and ‘favourable’ comes to the end sooner than later because when anything good is happening, we never realise how soon the time has elapsed. On the other hand any bad happening or bad things appears not be coming to end as soon as we wish it to come to an end. Have a nice Sunday! Deepak

Hi Gorgeous Mimpi! Hehehe! It's been long time again but you know me always here for you. To answer your discussion, I think that's the irony and sarcasm of being an human being and to be entitled to our own opinion. So when we say that "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder"; therefore, we either view a person thru gentle eyes and appreciation or sarcasm and ridicule. That's why this saying has not the same interpretation for everyone. And it sets barrier and standards in our society making life easy for some and difficult for others. I think the saying should be, "we are all beautiful in our own ways". (^^,) And "all good things must come to an end", because if we don't experience or know the bad things of the world, we won't appreciate the good things that comes to us. Like for wealthy people, not the comfortable ones, just the very very wealthy, hehehe, sometimes I think some of them don't realize the luck they have, and now due to the recession, some came to realize that they had a good life and had taken it for granted. (^^,)

I think every thing both good and bad finally comes to an end. We all wish for good things to last forever but that never happens. Beauty also does not last forever.

What you question is very true Mimpi, It should be bad things come to an end, but when we say that all good things come to an end , we really don't want it to and with that expectation we say it. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. And at one extreme of it, it does imply that what is beautiful to one maybe ugly to the other, or what is sick and saddening to one is fully to the other, and even what is crazy and inane to one is genius to the other. It may sound rude, but des not stop us fromm thinking that way. We may choose not to express it. At the same time there are also in betweens on the scale of awful and amusing and some will have opinions in between. Now that's the complexities of the human mind, perceptions and subjectivity and what drives us to go round in circles. That's why we need to panda spank more often.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. I think this could be true because if we all thought the same person was beautiful it would cause a lot of problems for that person. If somebody's a weirdo by one person's standards, I don't think you'd get his/her mother, father, spouse, or other loved one to agree. If a good thing never comes to end, it stands to reason that it has always been there, because without beginnings there is no end, and without endings there is no beginning. So, as a Zen practitioner, I would say, yes, everything that we perceive has a beginning and middle and an ending. Good things come to and end, bad things come to an end and mediocre things come to and end. When we judge things, we make them measurable - therefore to be measurable, they must begin and must end. Did you ever know anything that was good last forever? I don't mean in the thoughts, but actually so in life. Even a good taste of something when we keep eating it for so long, will stop tasting quite so good. - Derek

That may be whey they call those platitudes. Duhhhh.

hi mimpi1911 hatley here. I think that whoever made that statement first about all good things must come to an end was thinking in terms of we all have to die some day. but why good must come to an end is still a puzzle to me as my thinking has always been when faced with bad things is " this too shall pass'. and that is so true. You may think that your bad luck will last for ever but it wont. and as for beauty lies in the eye of the beholder I do think the person is thinking not just about the exterior of a person but the person's personality And character so if you think Im awful but only weirdos would think me amusing you are missing the point. I may not suit your idea of physical beauty but you are looking only at one part of me,not my personality And not my character and reputation. we are not just outside pretty but maybe inside beauty as well.

There are a few good things you really want to end a birth of a child for one.That is a good thing but sometimes the pain is really bad. The only people I have heard say beauty lies in the eye's of the beholder is the cute people that can't understand why some other cute person picked a plain person. The reason is you could be ever so pretty but get ugly the min. you open your mouth and say the things you say. You have a good day. Your friend onlyida

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder...I guess it means just that, I may find you beautiful but others may have the opposite view, it kind of makes sense we all have differing opinions as to what is beautiful or not. If everybody found you beautiful would it be ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholderS’ (LOL) The other saying should probably read that all things come to an end because I guess everything will end eventually good and bad.

In life everyone do need good things happening at least once a while in his/her life for their life to be a bit more worth living.One always tries and wanna get the goods out of everything they are involved with.This may end up in reverse too,but the life moves on. Good things surely must come to a slight sort of end,since its not always recommended to be living with everything good around,its makes one lose the joy and happiness of being living with happiness.

Hello there. I believe that this saying apply to happy times. I don't know that if it is really true, but I have a testimony that can support the saying. We were out on a beach one day and we were having fun, and when it was time to go home the fun just had to end. So I believe that all good things come to an end, but I believe that there are many good things and only our memories can bring it back to us. It doesn't necessarily means that it has to end. According to my own research crime really doesn't pay and they usually don't come to an end. That's why only good things come to an end. Well, honestly, I have a hard time giving a good response for this because I myself am confuse with that saying. Thanks for the discussion anyways. I hope my explanation could help you in discovering on what really lies beyond the meaning of that phrase or verse.

Mimpi, remember Socrates? He was the ugliest of all human being of all time. Now if you ask me was he really ugly I would say - 'no, he was the most handsome man ever existed' and I am sure it would plunge you into another puzzle. How come I saw such splendid beauty in him? Obscurely though his heart and the brain. A man or a woman need not necessarily be beautiful physically and hence there is another quote "go by the heart not by the look'. And all good things come to an end is the other side of the coin. Sorry if some people find me going me all philosophical. This little head has nothing big wigs.