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Showing posts with label Happy New Year Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy New Year Quotes. Show all posts
Yesterday, everybody smoked hi...
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.
Year's end is neither an end n...
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
What can be said in New Year r...
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.
We meet today To thank Thee fo...
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
Time has no divisions to mark ...
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.
Then sing, young hearts that a...
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.
The proper behavior all throug...
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.
The Old Year has gone. Let the...
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!
The merry year is born Like th...
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Ring out the old, ring in the ...
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
No one ever regarded the First...
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 is a harmless annua...
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.
New Year's eve is like every o...
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.
New Year's Day: Now is the acc...
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.
Never tell your resolution bef...
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
Many people look forward to th...
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
Here's to the bright New Year,...
Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.
For last year's words belong t...
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.
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