Happy New Year from the Ridgewood Front Porch
I wanted to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year and share a few interesting New Years Quotes. My personal favorite quote of all time is “Adversity Introduces Us To Ourselves“.
This is not specifically a New Years quote, but given the difficult times we are all facing, it seems to be an appropriate quote to remember as we head into 2009. It is very easy to act a certain way during good times but it is during the most troubling and difficult times in our lives that we really find out what we are made off. I am not sure who to attribute this quote to but the first time I heard it was during a Speech by President Bush right after 9/11 and I will never forget it.
Below are 5 great New Years specific quotes.
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
–Benjamin Franklin
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.
–W.H. Auden
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
–Bill Vaughan
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
–Oscar Wilde
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
–Oprah Winfrey
