An optimist stays
up until midnight to see the New Year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year
leaves.
Bill Vaughn
Youth is when
you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's
Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughan
"New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time
to make your regular annual good resolutions.
Next week you can begin paving hell with them
as usual. 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 shortcomings considerably shorter
than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly
upon how we did the same old thing last year
about this time. However, go in, community.
New Year's is harmless annual institutions,
of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat
for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls,
and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy
it with a looseness suited to the greatness
of the occasion."
-- Mark Twain
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.
- Lord Tennyson
Then sing, young
hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow.
- Emily Miller
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
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
-F.M. Knowles
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
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
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 Payson Powell
It wouldn't be
New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas
"Here's to
the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to
the old; here's to the things that are yet to
come, and to the memories that we hold."
-- Anonymous
A New Year's resolution
is something that goes in one year and out the
other.
Anonymous
Good resolutions are simply checks that men
draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
"I do think
New Year's resolutions can't technically be
expected 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
New Year's Resolution:
To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this
does not encourage them to take up more of my
time.
James Agate
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 new backbone, 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
"When we once
begin to form good resolutions, God gives us
every opportunity of carrying them out."
-- St John Chrysostom
I made no resolutions
for the New Year. The habit of making plans,
of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much of a daily event for me.
Anais Nin
Now there are
more overweight people in America than average-weight
people. So overweight people are now average
and that means you met your New Year's resolution.
Jay Leno
New Year's Day is every man's birthday. - Charles
Lamb
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
Lam b
"Finish each
day and be done with it. 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."
Be at war with your vices; at peace with your
neighbors, and let every new year find you a
better man.
Benjamin Franklin
It wouldn't be
New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas
"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 Lovejoy Pierce
"To every thing there is a season, and
a time to every purpose under the heaven: A
time to be born, and a time to die; a time to
plant, and a time to pluck up that which is
planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time
to mourn, and a time to dance;"
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-4
