New Year Wishes and Status Messages - Page 14

New Year''s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb

A New Year''s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

It wouldn''t be New Year''s if I didn''t have regrets. ~William Thomas

New Year''s Day is every man''s birthday. ~Charles Lamb

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. ~Ellen Goodman

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge

Year''s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it''s twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

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

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

And ye, who have met with Adversity''s blast,
And been bow''d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass''d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood

Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide

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

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

Laye Khushiyon ki Bahar,
Barsaye Pyar hi Pyar,
Dhan Sampati se Paripurna Ho Aap,
Icchayen Sabhi Poori Kare Nav Varsh ka ye Tyohar,
Happy New Year to you!