I’d like to wish everybody reading this
a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah
as well as a Happy and Productive New Year.
2012 is knocking on the door. Before you make
your New Year’s resolution, take a look
at some famous quotes from some well-known
people concerning a New Year.
*Bill Vaughan - “Youth is when you’re
allowed to stay up late on New Year’s
Eve. Middle Age is when you’re forced
to.”
*P.J. O’Rourke - “The proper behavior
all through the holiday season is to be drunk.
The drunkenness culminates on New Year’s
Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person
you’re married to.”
*James Agate - “New Year’s Resolution:
To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this
does not encourage them to take up more of
my time.”
*Charles Lamb - New Year’s Day is every
man’s birthday.”
*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.”
*Oscar Wilde - “Good resolutions are
simply checks that men draw on a bank where
they have no account.”
*Ellen Goodman - “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.”
*F.M. Knowles - “He who breaks a resolution
is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”
*Eric Zorn - “Making resolutions is a
cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance
that demands personal honesty and, ultimately,
reinforces humility. Breaking them is part
of the cycle.”
*Robert Paul - I’m a little bit older,
a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder,
but still none the wiser.”
*Anonymous - “A New Year’s resolution
is something that goes in one Year and out
the other.”
*Jean Paul Richter - “Every man regards
his own life as the New Year’s Eve of
time.”
And from not so famous yours truly: “When
you learn that life is short and how to forgive,
you have a great knowledge.”
Stay safe. See you again in February, 2012.
