"all good things come to an end" meaning in English

See all good things come to an end in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

Head templates: {{head|en|proverb|head=}} all good things come to an end, {{en-proverb}} all good things come to an end
  1. Nothing good lasts forever. Synonyms: all good things must come to an end Translations (nothing good lasts forever): كُلّ الْأَشْيَاء الْجَيِّدَة تَنْتَهِي (alt: kull al-ʔašyāʔ al-jayyida(t) tantahī) (Arabic), 天下沒有不散的宴席 (Chinese Mandarin), 天下没有不散的宴席 (tiānxià méiyǒu bùsàn de yànxí) (Chinese Mandarin), kaikki hyvä loppuu aikanaan (Finnish), aika aikaansa kutakin (Finnish), toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin (French), alles hat sein Ende (German), tutte le cose belle devono finire (Italian), تياد يڠ ککل [Jawi] (Malay), يڠ هيدوڤ مڽاسرکن کماتين [Jawi] (Malay), tiada yang kekal [Rumi] (Malay), yang hidup menyasarkan kematian [Rumi] (Malay), tudo que é bom acaba (Portuguese), всему́ прихо́дит коне́ц (vsemú prixódit konéc) (Russian), vse dobro se enkrat konča (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-all_good_things_come_to_an_end-en-proverb-eELZLYiT Categories (other): English proverbs, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for all good things come to an end meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "all good things come to an end",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "all good things come to an end",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nothing good lasts forever."
      ],
      "id": "en-all_good_things_come_to_an_end-en-proverb-eELZLYiT",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "all good things must come to an end"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "alt": "kull al-ʔašyāʔ al-jayyida(t) tantahī",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "كُلّ الْأَشْيَاء الْجَيِّدَة تَنْتَهِي"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "天下沒有不散的宴席"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tiānxià méiyǒu bùsàn de yànxí",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "天下没有不散的宴席"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "kaikki hyvä loppuu aikanaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "aika aikaansa kutakin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "alles hat sein Ende"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "tutte le cose belle devono finire"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "tags": [
            "Jawi"
          ],
          "word": "تياد يڠ ککل"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "tags": [
            "Jawi"
          ],
          "word": "يڠ هيدوڤ مڽاسرکن کماتين"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "tags": [
            "Rumi"
          ],
          "word": "tiada yang kekal"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "tags": [
            "Rumi"
          ],
          "word": "yang hidup menyasarkan kematian"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "tudo que é bom acaba"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vsemú prixódit konéc",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "всему́ прихо́дит коне́ц"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
          "word": "vse dobro se enkrat konča"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "all good things come to an end"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "all good things come to an end",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "all good things come to an end",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nothing good lasts forever."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "all good things must come to an end"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "alt": "kull al-ʔašyāʔ al-jayyida(t) tantahī",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "كُلّ الْأَشْيَاء الْجَيِّدَة تَنْتَهِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "天下沒有不散的宴席"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiānxià méiyǒu bùsàn de yànxí",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "天下没有不散的宴席"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "kaikki hyvä loppuu aikanaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "aika aikaansa kutakin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "alles hat sein Ende"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "tutte le cose belle devono finire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "tags": [
        "Jawi"
      ],
      "word": "تياد يڠ ککل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "tags": [
        "Jawi"
      ],
      "word": "يڠ هيدوڤ مڽاسرکن کماتين"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "tags": [
        "Rumi"
      ],
      "word": "tiada yang kekal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "tags": [
        "Rumi"
      ],
      "word": "yang hidup menyasarkan kematian"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "tudo que é bom acaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vsemú prixódit konéc",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "всему́ прихо́дит коне́ц"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "nothing good lasts forever",
      "word": "vse dobro se enkrat konča"
    }
  ],
  "word": "all good things come to an end"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.