poems for new year

Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. ~Floyd W. Tomkins



Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith



An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown



It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown



I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke



The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it. ~Jack Burke



Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. ~Author Unknown



Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. ~Art Linkletter



The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ~Andre Maurois



Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord! ~Author Unknown



The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker



The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel Johnson



More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. ~Wilbur Wright



Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau



The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. ~National Review



You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. ~Author Unknown