New Year's Wish

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. - Menander

Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Swedish Proverb

I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. - Seneca

When I go I'll take New Year's Eve with me. - Guy Lombardo

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. - William Thomas

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. - Karl Augustus Menninger

When you wish upon a star... you might be happier the way you are. - Phyllis Sugar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. - Julius Caesar

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling. He who makes one is a fool. - F.M. Knowles

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now. - Groucho Marx

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. - Dr. Phil

I wish I could trade my heart for another liver, so I could drink more and care less. - Tina Fey

When I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. - Dr. Seuss

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time. - Greer Garson

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Even though we did not author creation, we wish to author morality and take the reins of life. - Ravi Zacharias

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I'm glad I did it'? - Zig Ziglar

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. - Groucho Marx

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." - Steven Wright

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. - Andre Gide

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. - French Proverb

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. - Dave Beard

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. - Lewis B Smedes

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

An individual starts off by facing his problem with resolution, but a convention saves the resolution for the end. - Unknown

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away. - Unknown

Sometimes I feel like a groundhog. I wish that every time I saw my workplace I could just go down the hole and go off to sleep. - Sherry Bane

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

If you wish to influence an individual or a group to embrace a particular value in their daily lives, tell them a compelling story. - Annette Simmons

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. - Ernest Hemingway

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. - Anais Nin