New Year Quotes

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they
have no account.  Oscar Wilde

• 7 Quotations for the
  New Year
• Funny Quotes for the
  New Year
• Irish Toasts for the
  New Year
• Bill Vaughn's New Year
  Quotes
• Wise Words to Start
  the New Year

7 Quotations for the New Year

1. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a
   duty.
   John Selden
2. Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old
   habits.
   Unknown
3. It wouldn't be New Year if I didn't have regrets.
   William Thomas
   
4. Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
   
   Oprah Winfrey
5. 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
6. A dog's New Year's Resolution: I will not chase that stick unless I
   actually see it leave his hand.
   Unknown
7. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
   let each New Year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

Our Five Further Favourite Funny Quotes for the New Year

• I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but
  still none the wiser.
  Robert Paul
• New Year's Eve: Where auld acquaintance be forgot...Unless, of
  course, those tests come back positive.
  Jay Leno
• 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
• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of
  proven criminals? 
  Ogden Nash
• Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall
  never cease to be amused.
  

5 Longer New Year Quotes

1. 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
2. From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good
   humour lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
   Leonard Bernstein
3. I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making
   plans, of criticising, sanctioning and moulding my life, is too much
   of a daily event for me. Anais Nin
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. Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight
   people. So overweight people are now average, which means, you have met
   your New Year's resolution.
   Jay Leno

How to Tell That You have Entered a New Year:

• You hear most of your jokes
  via e-mail instead of in person.
• Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so
  she can create a screen saver.
• You enter your password on the microwave.
• You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
• You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of four.
• You chat
  several times a day with a stranger from Canada, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbour all last year.
• You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
• You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
• You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
• The concept of using real money instead of credit or debit to make a purchase is foreign
  to you.
• Your idea of being organised is multi-coloured Post-it notes.
• You're reading this.

Wise Words to Start the New Year

• The early worm gets eaten!
• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots
  to do and not doing it.
• Never argue with a fool, people may not know the difference.
• Lead me not into temptation (I can find the way myself).
• You can't skip and be unhappy at the same time.
• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy
  something.

The Wisdom of An Angel

An angel appears at a meeting of religious
leaders and tells their leader that in return for his unselfish and
exemplary behaviour, God will reward him with his choice of infinite
wealth, wisdom, or beauty.

Without hesitating, the leader selects
infinite wisdom.

'Done!' says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of
smoke and a bolt of lightning.

Now, all heads turn toward the
leader, who sits surrounded by a faint halo of light.

One of the
others whispers, 'Say something.'

The leader sighs and says, 'I
should have taken the money.'

Footnote:
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