I RESOLVE TO . . .

New Year Optimism -

"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

Auld Lang Syne

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne"

Holiday Behavior -

"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

New Habits -

"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits." 

Author Unknown

White Vows -

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."

George William Curtis - From The Quotegarden

New Year -

"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

New Beginning -

"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."

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Time -

"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." 

Thomas Mann

January One -

"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 - From The Quotegarden