all's well that ends well

Etymology
Often believed to be from the title of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well.

More likely attributed to John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), who wrote plays for the royal court from the early 1530s onwards, some sixty years before Shakespeare made his way in the Elizabethan theatre. Although his book of proverbs was the first to use this phrasing, it originates even further back.

In 1381, in J. R. Lumby’s Chronicon Henrici Knighton, the line ‘If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ seems to be a more likely origin.

Proverb

 * 1) A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before.

Translations

 * Bengali: সব ভাল তার শেষ ভাল যার
 * Catalan: tot va bé si acaba bé
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 結局好，樣樣好,
 * Czech: konec dobrý, všechno dobré, dobrý konec vše napraví
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fino bona, ĉio bona
 * Finnish: loppu hyvin, kaikki hyvin
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סוֹף טוֹב הַכֹּל טוֹב
 * Hindi: अंत भला तो सब भला
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: gach rud i gceart ach sinn a bheith slán
 * Italian: tutto è bene quel che finisce bene, tutto è bene ciò che finisce bene
 * Japanese: 終わり良ければすべて良し
 * Korean: 끝이 좋으면 다 좋다
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: يڠ باءيق اخيرڽ باءيق جوݢ
 * Rumi: yang baik akhirnya baik juga
 * Norwegian: når enden er god er allting godt
 * Polish: wszystko dobre, co się dobrze kończy
 * Portuguese: tudo fica bem quando acaba bem, tudo está bem quando termina bem, bem está o que bem acaba
 * Romanian: totul e bine când se termină cu bine
 * Russian: всё хорошо́, что хорошо́ конча́ется
 * Scottish Gaelic: 's fhearr deireadh math na droch thoiseach
 * Serbo-Croatian: sve dobro što se dobro završi
 * Slovak: koniec dobrý, všetko dobré, koniec všetko napraví
 * Slovene: konec dober, vse dobro
 * Spanish: bien está lo que bien acaba, a buen fin no hay mal tiempo, a buen fin no hay mal principio
 * Swedish: slutet gott, allting gott
 * Turkish: sonu iyi biterse
 * Ukrainian: все добре, що добре закінчується