"I will seek elegance rather than luxury; refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable; wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently and act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, and babes and sages with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, doall things bravely, await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let thespiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common."
~~~WilliamEllery Channing~~~
"Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. ... Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. ... Vow not tom ake a promise you don't think you can keep. ... Walk tall, and smile more.You'll look 10 years younger. Don't be afraid to say, "I love you". Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world."
~~~Ann Landers~~~
"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may havemade three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a smalltown by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
~~~SydneySmith~~~
"Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you, but your Happy NewYear depends on what you do for others."
Of all sound of all bells most solemn and touching isthe peal which rings out the Old Year.
~~~Charles Lamb~~~
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
~~~Joey Adams~~~
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bellsand fire off pistols.
~~~Thomas Mann~~~
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Theefor the opening one.
~~~John Greenleaf Whittier~~~
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is tobe drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~~~P.J. O'Rourke~~~
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~~Benjamin Franklin~~
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
~~~Charles Lamb~~~
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from thenaked thorn.
~~~Hartley Coleridge~~~
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~~~Hal Borland~~~
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty.
~~~John Selden~~~
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with themas usual.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
A new year is unfolding--like a blossom with petalscurled tightly concealing the beauty within.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a newback bone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
~~~G.K. Chesterton~~~
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with the mas usual.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
~~~John Burroughs~~~
Each age has deemed the new-born year, The fittest time for festal cheer.
~~~Walter Scott~~~
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~~~ Ellen Goodman~~~
This bright new year is given me, To live each day with zest. To daily grow and try to be, My highest and my best!
~~~William Arthur Ward~~~
"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of noparticular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, andfriendly calls and humbug resolutions."
~~~Mark Twain~~~
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get itright.
~~~Oprah Winfrey~~~
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
~~~Jim Bishop~~~
You have done what you could — some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~~~Emerson~~~
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.
~~~John Burroughs~~~
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~~~Edith L. Pierce~~~
If you think interms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if interms of 100 years, teach the people.
~~~Confucius~~~
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
~~~Henry Moore~~~
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~~~Thomas Mann~~~
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?
~~~John Dos Passos~~~
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of noparticular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
~~~Jean Paul Richter~~~
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left intears.
~~~W.H. Auden~~~
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. "
~~~Henry Ward Beecher~~~
"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~~~By - P.J. O'Rourke~~~
"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. "
~~~Charles Lamb~~~
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the newyear in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. "
~~~Bill Vaughn~~~
""When then is lost, as time is by, we look upon the yearly wine to see our substance in the lees. Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave? To look for clear and faithful sense, that gives a bodied stance bouquet, then see the vat at mirror's face and find in it, the yearly pace.""
~~~ E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue~~~
""Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar,took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient short comings considerably shorter than ever."
~~~Mark Twain~~~
""For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~~~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding~~~
""And yet, who have met with Adversity's blast. And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future, and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen."
~~~~Thomas Hood~~~~
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~~~Oprah Winfrey~~~
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
~~~Franz Grillparzer~~~
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
~~~Cyril Cusack~~~
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
~~~Helen Keller~~~
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
~~~Tom Peters~~~
What is there more kindly than the feeling between hostand guest?
~~~Aeschylus~~~
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
~~~James Lafferty~~~
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
~~~Plautus~~~
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
~~~~Mark Twain~~~
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
~~~James Agate~~~
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
~~~W. Somerset Maugham~~~
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
~~~Einstein~~~
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~~~Bill Vaughan~~~
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~~~Hal Borland~~~
The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~~~Hartley Coleridge~~~
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
~~~HamiltonWright Mabie~~~
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
~~~Edward PaysonPowell~~~
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get itright.
~~~Oprah Winfrey~~~
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~~~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~~~
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with themas usual.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
~~~George William Curtis~~~
For last year's words belong to last year's language, And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make abeginning.
~~~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding~~~
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, weare a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the wind sand gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter thanever.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
~~~Brooks Atkinson~~~
Each age has deemed the new-born year, The fittest time for festal cheer.
~~~Walter Scott~~~
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
~~~Martin Luther~~~
When then is lost, as time is by, we look upon the yearly wine, to see our substance in the lees. Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave? To look for clear and faithful sense, that gives a bodied stance bouquet, then see the vat at mirror's face and find in it, the yearly pace.
~~~E. Marshall~~~
I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically bee xpected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
~Helen Fielding,Bridget Jones's Diary
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come backpositive.
~Jay Leno
We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, isthis: To rise above the littlethings.
~John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching isthe peal which rings out the Old Year.
~Charles Lamb
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
~~~William Thomas~~~
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
~~~Joey Adams~~
To the old,long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
~~~Ben Jonson~~~
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson~~~
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
~~~Michael Altshuler~~~
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~~~Oprah Winfrey~~~
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
~~~Brooks Atkinson~~~
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~~~T.S. Eliot~~~
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its owndead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail theduties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
- Edward Payson Powell
• "The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. … Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."
~~~G. K. Chesterton~~~
• "The old year has gone. Let the dead past bury itsown dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail theduties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"
~~~Edward PaysonPowell~~~
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on NewYear's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughn
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~~~Bill Vaughan~~~
Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.
~~~Walter Scott~~~
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
~~~John Burroughs~~~
"Everyman/woman should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a freshpage. Take up or let out one hole more in the buckle if necessary according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man/woman gird himselfonce more, with his/her face to the front, and take no interest in the thingsthat were and are past."
~~~Henry Ward Beecher~~~
"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam."
~~~Charles Lamb~~~
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