Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.
New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.
With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.
Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.