Mother Nature is providential. She gives us
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Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the ne
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in
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A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ig
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you ca
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
After you've done a thing the same way for two ye
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After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
The proper behavior all through the holiday seaso
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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.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred ye
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are o
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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black
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Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
Good manners can replace morals. It may be
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Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.
It took me years and years of trial efforts to wo
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It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
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