Topic: Perspective
| For the New Year |
"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
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday. - Charles Lamb"
"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions." - 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." - Mark Twain
"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows." - George William Curtis
"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
"Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that" - Judith Crist
"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." - James Agate
"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets." - William Thomas
"The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears." - W.H. Auden
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
"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." - Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. - Ambrose Bierce
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." - Dan Stanford
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." - C. S. Lewis
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way." - Virginia Woolf
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas
"Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed." - Jason Kravitz
Posted by Alan at 17:45 PST
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