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

Happy New Years everyone. ~ August

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

Happy New years to everyone anyway!

“i would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former sea monsters
However since it is
new year's eve
and i have lip cancer
i will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.”
~ Leonard Cohen



Tonight’s December thirty-first
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small.
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Midnight whistles, loud and clear.
Duck! Here comes another year.
~ Ogden Nash

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. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet. "31 December, 1947," The Table Talk of W.H. Auden, compiled by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).


In Scotland - we call it Hogmanay, and it's great!

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 (American political commentator,Journalist, Writer and Humorist, b.1947)



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