Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Year Quotations

  • Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn
  • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
  • Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
  • A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
  • Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
  • No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb
  • New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb
  • Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden
  • Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
  • The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley Coleridge
  • New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell
  • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
  • Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
  • ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
  • 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. ~P.J. O'Rourke
  • Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher
  • New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
  • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis
  • For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
  • We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
  • Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
  • People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
  • And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
  • The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen. ~Thomas Hood
  • Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson
  • Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ~Walter Scott
  • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde
  • Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. ~Martin Luther
  • A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
  • But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide
  • When then is lost, as time is by, we look upon the yearly wine to see our substance in the lees. Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave? To look for clear and faithful sense, that gives a bodied stance bouquet, then see the vat at mirror's face and find in it, the yearly pace. ~E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)
  • Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard
  • I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
  • New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno
  • We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
  • One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs
  • Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb
  • A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. ~Edgar Guest
  • It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas
  • We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
  • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams
  • He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. ~F.M. Knowles
  • The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
  • I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore
  • Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann
  • I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin
  • Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? ~John Dos Passos, 1917
  • New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain
  • Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
  • The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden

Happy Healthy New Year 2012

May Your Hair, Your Teeth,
Your Face-Lift, Your Abs And
Your Stocks Not Fall;
And May Your Blood Pressure,
Your Triglycerides,
Your Cholesterol,
Your White Blood Count And
Your Mortgage Interest Not Rise.
Happy Healthy New Year 2012

May the new year bring these wishes

May the new year
Bring these wishes to all of you
Warmth of love, comfort of home
Joy for your children,
Company and support of family n friends
A caring heart that accepts
N treats all human beings equally
Enrichment of knowledge n
Richness of diversity
Courage to seek n speak the truth
Even if it means standing alone
Hopes n dreams of a just world n
The desire to make it happen
A light to guide your path
Helping hands to strengthen unity
Serenity n peace within your mind,
Heart n soul
Food for thought n soul
A hand to hold

Monday, December 26, 2011

General Christmas Quotes

  • "Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and happy holidays."
  • "May we all show each other the love and patience that we may not deserve this Christmas.  This is the true spirit of Christmas."
  • "It's easy to get caught up in all the business of Christmas, but I'm wishing you a peaceful Christmas full of the most important things."
  • "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May you be surrounded by all the things that bring Christmas cheer."
  • "May you be reminded of all the most important things in your life this Christmas. Merry Christmas!"
  • "We hope you are surrounded by beauty and comfort this Christmas season."
  • "Blessings, love, and peace to you this Christmas."
  • "Hoping you can feel love, joy, and peace this Christmas season."
  • "The beauty of the Christmas season can remind us of all the beauty in life that we take for granted. Our family, our friends, and our faith."
  • "Keep Christmas a time of celebration and love. Don't let Christmas become a chore. Don't let Christmas bring strife to your home."

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Say "Merry Christmas" in Different languages

Here is a list of how to say "Merry Christmas" in different languages. These could be interesting to use for various reasons. Look for a few that have been made up to be funny.

  • Alien: (transmitted directly into your mind)
  • Arabic: Milad Majid
  • Baby Talk: Merr Kissmus
  • Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
  • Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
  • Danish: Glædelig Jul
  • Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
  • English: Merry Christmas
  • French: Joyeux Noel
  • German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
  • Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
  • Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
  • Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
  • Hindi: Meri Christmas
  • Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
  • Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
  • Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
  • Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
  • Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
  • Pig Latin: ErryMay IstmasChray
  • Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
  • Spanish: Feliz Navidad
  • Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh

Sunday, December 18, 2011

How to wish "Happy Birthday" in different languages

Birthday is one of those occasions where the strong emotional bonds, warmth of heartfelt best wishes go beyond the barrier of language and sincere and cordial birthday wish always becomes successful in conveying with its true glory.

Here is a list which will help you to wish "Happy Birthday" in different languages of the world.

Brazil: Parabéns a você! nesta data querida muitas felicidades e muitos anos de vida.
Chinese-Cantonese: Sun Yat Fai Lok!
Chinese-Mandarin: qu ni sheng er kuai le
Croatian: Sretan Rodendan!
Czech: Vsechno nejlepsi k Tvym narozeninam!!
Danish: Tillykke med fodselsdagen!
Dutch: Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! or Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
Esperanto: Felichan Naskightagon!
Farsi: Tavalodet Mobarak!
Finnish: Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!
French (Canada): Bonne Fete!
French: Joyeux Anniversaire!
German: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Greek: Eytyxismena Genethlia! or Chronia Pola!
Hawaiian: Hau`oli la hanau!
Hebrew: Yom Huledet Same'ach!
Hungarian: Boldog szuletesnapot! or Isten eltessen!
Italian: Buon Compleanno!
Japanese: Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Russian: S dniom razhdjenia! or Pazdravliayu s dniom razhdjenia!
Spanish: Feliz Cumpleaños!
Swedish: Grattis på födelsedagen
Taiwanese: San leaz quiet lo!
Thai: Suk San Wan Keut!
Ukrainian: Mnohiya lita! or Z dnem narodjennia!
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