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:
Nothing can remain static. Things are either moving forward or moving backward.
Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind,
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n,
That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?