This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

New Years Quotes


1. 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

2. 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. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

3. Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. - Bill Vaughn

4. New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

5. 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

6. The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton

7. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. - Michael Altshuler

8. 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. - Unknown

9. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. - John Burroughs

10. 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. - Brooks Atkinson

11. Maybe this year…walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but potential. - Ellen Goodman

12. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

13. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. - T.S. Eliot

14. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. - Joey Adams

15. The greatest goal you can set this upcoming year is to make peace with your life, no matter your circumstances. - Unknown

16. 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

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