HAPPY 2010

• "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."  - Benjamin Franklin

• "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

• "For last year's words belong to last year's language.  And next year's words await another voice.  And to make an end is to make a beginning."  - T.S. Eliot "Little Gidding"

• "Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."  - Oscar Wilde

• "Glory to God in highest heaven, who onto man his son hath given.  While angels sing a tender mirth, a glad new year to all on earth."  - Martin Luther

• "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. " ~Bill Vaughn

• "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time" ~James Agate

•   "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

• "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. " ~Brooks Atkinson

• "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

• "Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account" ~ Oscar Wilde

• "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

• "People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas" ~Anonymous

•   "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man" ~Benjamin Franklin

•   "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

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

• One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things" ~John Burroughs

I will try to make such statement in the future......