best quotes for new year

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. ~Charles Towne


A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam


It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. ~Rose Macaulay


When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb


History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past. ~Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie


The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. ~J.B. Jackson


If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ~George Bernard Shaw Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb


Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~Richard C. Trench


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski


How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20


Be naughty - save Santa a trip. ~Author Unknown


Most people do not pray; they only beg. ~George Bernard Shaw


A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson


One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung


Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion


The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey


Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg


A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown