Sunday, December 26, 2010 – Facing a New Year
Some old, some new…
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
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~ Charles Lamb
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
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 snowstorm of white vows. ~ George William Curtis
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that ~ Judith Crist
New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. ~ James Agate
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~ Joey Adams
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ~ William Thomas
There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
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
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
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~ Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?
EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ Douglas Adams
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. ~ Dan Stanford
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ~ C. S. Lewis
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. ~ Virginia Woolf
All human wisdom is summed up in two words ~ wait and hope. ~ Alexander Dumas
Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed. ~ Jason Kravitz
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~ Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Louis Hector Berlioz
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.” ~ William S. Burroughs
I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it. ~ Queen Juliana
I have an existential map. It has “You are here” written all over it. ~ Steven Wright
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