☻May
this new year bring many opportunities your way, to
explore every joy of life and may your resolutions for
the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into
reality and all your efforts into great achievements.
☻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.
☻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.
☻The
new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
☻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.
☻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.
☻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.
☻People
are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they
really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and
Christmas.
☻And
ye, 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.
☻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.
☻Each
age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
☻Good
resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no
account.
☻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.
☻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.
☻But can one still make
resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old
habits.
☻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.
☻New Year's Eve, where auld
acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
☻We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
☻One resolution I have made,
and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
☻Of all sound of all
bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
☻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.
☻It wouldn't be New Year's
if I didn't have regrets.
☻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.
☻May all your troubles last
as long as your New Year's resolutions.
☻He who breaks a resolution
is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
☻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.
☻I think in terms of the
day's resolutions, not the year's.
☻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.
☻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.
☻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.
☻Every man regards his own
life as the New Year's Eve of time.
☻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.
☻Youth
is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when
you're forced to.
☻An
optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up
to make sure the old year leaves.
☻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.
☻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.
☻New
Year's Day is every man's birthday.
☻The
merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
☻Year's
end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that
experience can instill in us.
☻Never
tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
☻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.
☻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!
☻Cheers
to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
☻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.
