“Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.”
Walter Cronkite
“"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.”
George E. Woodberry
“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!”
Contributed by: Randi
Edward Payson Powell
“My pipe is out, my glass is dry; My fire is almost ashes too; But once again, before you go, And I prepare to meet the New : Old Year! a parting word that's true, For we've been comrades, you and I - I thank God for each day of you; There! bless yo”
Robert Service
“That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet”
Emily Dickinson
“A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor the summer that soon shall be."But deep in the shady wood,Another bird sang, "I pourMy heart on the solemn solitudeFor the springs that return no more."”
George William Curtis
“I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.”
Richard Gough
