New Year's Wish

Appear as you may wish to be. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. - Charles Lamb

The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. - George William Curtis

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

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. - Olive Wendell Holmes Sr.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde

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

I wish she would be able to take responsibility for her failure. - Donald Trump

If you wish your life were different... do your life differently. - Terence Houlihan

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. - Jean Paul Richter

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

All wish to possess knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price. - Juvenal

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! - Joey Adams

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne

I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. - Gerald Barzan

I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun. - Scott Adams

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

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that and find out later that I already have. - Richard Harris

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

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish. - Mark Batterson

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

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. - Jay Leno

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. - C.T. Studd

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

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. - Calvin Coolidge

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

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. - Earl Nightingale

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey

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

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. - Tommy Shaw

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