Words of Wisdom from SharLeigh

THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR

The year 2005 is here. It seems like yesterday that we were all worried about Y2K. It had many people’s knickers in a bunch but as fast as that storm appeared it disappeared. Let’s take a moment of reflection and see what others have said about the New Year.

• 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

• 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

• Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. Bill Vaughan

• 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

• Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. Author Unknown

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

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. P.J. O’Rourke

Happy New Year. May you have health, wisdom, happiness and steady employment through the year!