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☻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.
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