Are you ready for another year?

Somehow, the idea of a New Year brings out the sententiousness in people. Matching these quotes to their weighty authors.

1. For last year's words belong to last year's language
   
   And next year's words await another voice.
2. May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
3. Each age has deemed the new-born year
   
   The fittest time for festal cheer.
4. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
5. Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.
6. Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
7. All of us every single year, we are a different person. I do not think we are the same person all our lives.
8. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
9. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
10. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'...

Possibilities:

• Steven Spielberg
• TS Eliot
• Jay Leno
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Walter Scott
• Akhenaton
• Oprah Winfrey
• Aleister Crowley
• Goethe
• Mark Twain

As usual, for answers, click the picture.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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