{"id":3776,"date":"2012-12-28T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:19:53","slug":"bons-mots-for-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Bons mots for a Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?attachment_id=3777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3777\" title=\"1775092_f521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1775092_f521-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1775092_f521-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1775092_f521.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From the scribes at CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS have a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2013! To toast to your health and happiness in the New Year, here is our collection of cheers!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YEAR TOASTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here\u2019s to things that are yet to come and to the memories that we hold.<\/li>\n<li>As we start the New Year, let\u2019s get down on our knees to thank God we\u2019re on our feet.<\/li>\n<li>May all your troubles in the coming year be as short as your New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/li>\n<li>May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.<\/li>\n<li>May the road rise up before you, and the wind be always at your back, and the good Lord hold you in the hollow of his hands.<\/li>\n<li>May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you.<\/li>\n<li>Dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening, and live every day as if it were your last.<\/li>\n<li>Welcome are those that are here; welcome all, and make good cheer; welcome all, another year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YEAR QUOTES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.\u00a0It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.\u00a0It is the nativity of our common Adam.\u00a0\u2013 Charles Lamb<\/li>\n<li>Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.<\/li>\n<li>A New Year\u2019s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.<\/li>\n<li>The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.\u2013 George William Curtis<\/li>\n<li>New Year\u2019s Day is every man\u2019s birthday.\u00a0\u2013 Charles Lamb<\/li>\n<li>Each age has deemed the new-born year, the fittest time for festal cheer \u2014 Sir Walter Scott<\/li>\n<li>The merry year is born, like the bright berry from the naked thorn. \u2014 Hartley Coleridge<\/li>\n<li>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. \u2014 Brooks Atkinson<\/li>\n<li>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. \u2014 Thomas Mann<\/li>\n<li>An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in; a pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.\u00a0\u2013 Bill Vaughan<\/li>\n<li>Youth is when you\u2019re allowed to stay up late on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 middle age is when you\u2019re forced to.\u00a0\u2013 Bill Vaughn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YEAR VERSE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We meet today<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To thank Thee for the era done,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And Thee for the opening one.<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 John Greenleaf Whittier<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With never a thought of sorrow;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The old goes out, but the glad young year<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Comes merrily in tomorrow.<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 Emily Miller<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">New Year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2013 Hamilton Wright Mabie<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every man should be born again on the first day of January.\u00a0Start with a fresh page.\u00a0Take 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2013 Henry Ward Beecher<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ring out the old, ring in the new,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ring, happy bells, across the snow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The year is going, let him go;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ring out the false, ring in the true<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the scribes at CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS have a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2013! To toast to your health and happiness in the New Year, here is our collection of cheers! &nbsp; NEW YEAR TOASTS Here\u2019s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here\u2019s to things that are yet to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[14,23,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}