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A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Be in peace with many,
but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.
- Ecclesiastes 1:23
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
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New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot.
Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Old is the new new.
- Anonymous
Since new developments are
the products of a creative mind,
we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all one whether we dine on corned beef in New York City,
black-eyed peas and cornbread in rural Louisiana,
or roast guinea pig in Peru.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Every generation needs a new revolution.
- Thomas Jefferson
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
A happy New Year to all the world.
- Charles Dickens
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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