15 Quotes to Ring in 2010
Happy New Year from Travelin’ Local.
It seems like yesterday when New Year’s Eve brought in the new century, and here we are starting a new decade. I hope this New Year’s brings everything good for you, your family, and friends.
To help you with your New Year’s Goals for 2010, here’s some New Year’s quotes worth reading; some requiring deeper thought and reflection:
To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. James Agate
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
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
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. Eric Zorn
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. Anonymous
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. Charles Lamb
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. John Selden
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average, which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. Jay Leno
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William Curtis
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde
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
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
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! Martin Luther
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
It’s been a great adventure this year finding interesting, fresh, unique, and appealing stories to share with our readers.
We’re very excited for the New Year, and wish all good cheer, and a Healthy Happy New Year’s Eve celebration. Travelin’ Local looks forward to more stories, unique places, and local cool spots for next year–same place, different experiences.
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