Loading ...New Year’s Eve Sayings by ~Hal Borland
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
Archive for December, 2010
New Year’s Eve Sayings by ~John Selden
Never tell your
resolution beforehand,
or it’s twice as
onerous a duty.
~John Selden
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
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 Eve Sayings by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
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, 1850
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a new year
and another chance
for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Hartley Coleridge
The merry year is born
Like the bright berry
from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge
New Year’s Eve Sayings by 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 Lamb
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
~Charles Lamb
New Year’s Eve Sayings by Benjamin Franklin
Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors, and let each
new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin