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Time is the school in which we learn.
Sep 10, 2025
The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
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.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.
A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.