(55 quotes found)
“Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.”
Edward Fitzgerald
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”
Oscar Wilde
“Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
“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
“If we are to reach peace in this world and if we are to carry on a war against war, we shall have to begin with the children”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We don't care about that. This is a new team, a new year. We just go out and play.”
Willie Randolph
“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
“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
“Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,”
Tom Daschle
