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New Year Quotation
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.”
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.”
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
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.”
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.”
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.”
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
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.”
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.”
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.”
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!”
This bright new year is given me
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.
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.”
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.” Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year'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 Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.~Author Unknown A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.~Author Unknown Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanac, December (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!) 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 New Year's Day is every man's birthday.~Charles Lamb Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.~John Selden 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 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.~Hamilton Wright 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 Payson Powell Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.~Oprah Winfrey
Ring out the old, ring in the new, 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.~P.J. O'Rourke 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 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.~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 Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com 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 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.~Mark Twain
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, 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 Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.~Oscar Wilde
Glory to God in highest heaven, Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885 But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.~Andre Gide
When then is lost, as time is by, Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard 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, Bridget Jones's Diary New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.~Jay Leno
We meet today One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.~John Burroughs Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb
A happy New Year! Grant that I It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.~William Thomas 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 May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.~Joey Adams
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; 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 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 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.~Anaïs Nin 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, 1917 New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular 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 in tears.~W.H. Auden
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