Nokia N900 Review | A Review of Nokia N900
N900 is the latest smart phone generation of the giant cellphone company, Nokia. First impressions aren’t auspicious with the N900. The open-source Maemo 5 OS is untested and unheralded and the handset is an uncharismatic, 18mm deep brick. Sure, it’s a solidly built brick, and the 3.5-inch screen slides back to reveal an excellent QWERTY keyboard, but with a screen that only works in landscape mode, it’s near impossible to operate one-handed and the whole thing exhudes a kind of meta-dullness not seen since the heyday of John Denver. Play with Nokia N900 a while, however, and a whole other picture becomes apparent.
The Linux-based Maemo 5 OS is intuitive, flexible, and makes Symbian look frankly awful. You can swipe through four home screens, each customisable with web pages, RSS feeds, live-updating applications, contacts and shortcuts to your address book, calendar etc. With a resolution of 800×480 the screen is fantastic (see “Killer features” on the following page) and the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, coupled with a generous 1GB RAM, means you can run multiple applications simultaneously. We gaily skipped between the music player, a YouTube vid, multiple web pages, the camera and various contacts and message folders without any of the sluggishness you get from other handsets. Cane the web and you’ll need to carry a charger around with you, though.
Instant Messages in N900 are displayed alongside SMS in the Conversations tab and it’s very simple to synch contact information across apps. Push mail is a cinch to set up too, but is kept separate. It would have been useful to have emails alongside tweets and Facebook updates - hopefully an app will fix it.
The rest of the spec impresses. The 32GB of internal storage and a microSD slot is plenty. Geotagged, five-meg pictures are fine, though with an LED instead of xenon flash, it’s no Satio. Ovi Maps is there for the habitually lost.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Nokia without some niggling issues and a faintly foolish marketing claim. The touchscreen doesn’t support multi-touch and the one on our early sample was unresponsive. There’s no support for MMS. Why? Because Nokia says the Nokia N900 is a “computing/internet solution” and not a phone. Err… it looks like a phone to us, chaps.
It’s also not obvious when you’ve missed a message. A light flashes and the menu glows, but there’s no indication what or who you’ve missed. However, with a customisable interface, superb multimedia features and capable browser, the N900 is better than any Nokia of recent vintage and superior to most smartphone rivals. Nokia can call it what it likes - as we said, it looks like a phone and quacks like a phone. Whatever it is, it rocks.
Killer Features of Nokia N900
1 Screen
Bright, colourful and sharp, the Nokia N900’s touchscreen is great for video and browsing alike. Flash 9.4 support lets you play back YouTube clips as nature intended, albeit with slight juddering and lag
2 Web browser
The Mozilla browser is excellent, swiftly displaying full web pages in just few seconds. You can scroll around with your finger or via a movable navigation arrow and zoom by tapping, or with the volume slider
3 Music player
Select albums, iPhone-like, by clicking through cover art. The supplied headphones are comfortable and sound better than average, but still feel cheap. As there’s a 3.5mm socket, they are easily replaced, however…
4 App stores
Apps will soon be available from Ovi Store for Maemo 5 when it launches, as well as developer portal Maemo Select, which already has 50 apps including FaceBook and Amazon. It’s open source so anyone can develop for it.
OPERATING SYSTEM Maemo 5.5
SCREEN 3.5 inches, 800×480
CONNECTIVITY 10Mbps HSDPA, Wi Fi (b/g), Bluetooth 2.1, US B, AV out, A-GPS. 3.5mm socket
CAMERA 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss Autofocus
VIDEO 800×480 plus a VGA webcam
STORAGE 32GB plus microSD up to 16GB
BATTERY 5 hours Talk (3G)
SIZE/WEIGHT 111×60x18mm/18Ig
Bottom Line
* Love
Speedy and powerful. Great interface. Excellent browser. Plenty of storage.
* Hate
Unresponsive touchscreen. Landscape only. Lacks apps thus far. Bulky and ugly as hell.
Source: T3.COM/360 January 2010
blob VB3 Mobile Living Space
Blob VB3 Mobile Living Space is a mobile egg house includes a bathroom, kitchen, lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. And its nose automatically opens up to serve as a porch. It is easily transportable and can be used as an office, guestroom or garden house. It is designed by Belgian architecture company dmvA.
Girl on Top: Improving Sex Positions
By Korin Miller
Guys tell us cowgirl is their all-time-favorite sex position. So we’re sharing our best tips for giving—and getting—maximum pleasure, boots and hat optional. (We bet you’ll be the first to ride him sideways!)
Ask a guy point-blank what does it for him in bed and he’s likely to respond “Uh… everything.” So to demystify that answer, we conducted a massive sex poll aimed at teasing out the dirtiest thoughts of thousands of guys. Among the many insights gleaned, a fascinating fact emerged about what men crave: You. On. Top. “When you take charge, they know you’re turned on and into it,” says certified sex therapist Ava Cadell, PhD, EdD. “They also get a great view of your breasts and other sexy parts.” And—let’s be honest—their lazy asses don’t have to do as much work when you’re riding them.
Not that we’re complaining. After all, it’s the most orgasm-inducing position for women. According to certified sex educator Amy Levine, founder of SexEd Solutions.com, you can set the pace that’ll get you off, and the angle is ideal for stimulating the two biggies: your G-spot and clitoris. We break down the reasons why this mattress move is so freakin’ amazing, along with tips for how to bliss it out even more.
You’re Running the Show
Being able to make your toes curl in the sack is a point of pride for guys, and they often question if they’re doing a good job. Are you having fun? Does it feel good? And most of all, are you going to come? ‘When you climb on top, he doesn’t have to worry about whether you’ll have an orgasm, since you’re taking control of your own pleasure, “Levine points out. He can just cruise along and enjoy himself. Girl-on-top also shows how much you’re craving him, which is an insane turn-on. “Guys are usually the ones in charge during sex, so the change of pace when you take over is incredibly arousing,” says Debby Herbenick, PhD, author of Because It Feels Good. “It makes him feel like you can’t get enough.” Play up that you’re calling the shots by blindfolding him right before he enters you or pinning his hands above his head as you grind into him.
MAKE IT SEXIER FOR YOU: Not only will dominating him give you a hot power trip, but you’ll also be able to experiment with the tempo and angle that bring you the most satisfaction. Switch up the rhythm from hard and fast to a slow groove, Cadell recommends. Or shift your body, like leaning slightly hack or to one side, and then bend all the way forward so your chest is pressed against his. You’ll stimulate all different areas of your V zone this way.
NAUGHTY BONUS TIP: Lower yourself onto him in a sideways sitting position, and rub your butt back and forth over his abs and thighs like a windshield wiper while he’s inside you. It massages parts of his penis that don’t normally get much action and strokes your G-spot at the same time, Cadell says.
There’s a Billion-Dollar View
Whether lie’s checking out your bouncing boobs in forward-facing cowgirl or your butt and back in reverse, girl-on-tap gives your guy an eyeful. “Men are more visually oriented than women are,” Levine says. “Seeing a sexy image is key to their arousal.” Plus, it’s the only position where he really gets to witness you in action. So move in a way that enhances your curves and will get him beyond frisky. Arch your back so your breasts thrust forward; in reverse, lean over a little and grab his toes, pushing your butt out.
MAKE IT SEXIER FOR YOU: The more confident you feel, the better sex will he, Cadell says. And when your guy is staring slack-jawed at your body, it’s hard not to think you’re hot as hell. As a result, every kiss, caress, and squeeze becomes extra mind-blowing.
But don’t just sit there and look pretty—max out the erotic benefits by putting on a minishow midaction. A few ideas: Keep on a front-closure bra, and when things start to get intense, unhook it so he can watch your breasts spill out; seductively suck on one of your fingers and then let it trail from your lips along your torso down to your V zone; toss your hair over your shoulder and then squeeze your breasts together to show them off or circle your nipples with your fingertips. Watching you touch yourself will drive him insane with desire.
NAUGHTY BONUS TIP: Indulge your exhibitionist sides. Prop a large mirror against the wall near your bed so you can both watch yourselves going at it, Levine suggests. Not only will you see your bodies from a hot new angle, but it also feels kinky…like you’re viewing yourselves in a porn flick.
The Good Parts Are Within Reach
In missionary and doggie-style, some of your hot buttons are tricky to get to, but girl-on-top grants him easy access to all your “stroke me” spots. And because neither of you has to use your hands to support yourselves, they’re free to roam everywhere. “Touching each other during sex—kissing, licking, stroking—builds on the main sensation that’s coming from your genitals and adds another layer of pleasure,” says Cadell. You can lick and gently nibble his nipples, kiss or run your tongue down his neck, lightly scratch your nails along his chest and abs, or squeeze his inner thighs.
MAKE IT SEXIER FOR YOU: This is the perfect position for showing him how you want to be touched… and subtly directing him adds to the vixenish “I’m in charge” vibe. For example, caress your breasts, and then place his hands on your set so he can take a turn. Or grab one of his hands and gently guide him below, pressing his fingers into you with the pressure and rhythm you’re craving, before removing your hand and letting him take over. Another idea is to mirror each other’s movements, like running your fingers through his hair while he runs his through yours.
NAUGHTY BONUS TIP: For the ultimate high, try this: In forward-facing cowgirl, reach your hand back and stroke his scrotum and perineum. At the same time, have him gently rub your clitoris with his thumb. You’re scoring simultaneous south-of-the-border pleasure, inside and out
Gravity Lends a Hand
When he’s lying on his hack or sitting down, the pressure of your body on top helps him effortlessly slide in a little farther. Not only does it feel incredible for both of you, but it gives him an ego boost as well. “Guys like to go deep because it makes them feel bigger, powerful, and more macho,” Cadell explains. Amp up the pleasure by building anticipation fbr that insanely hot moment when he first enters you. Ease just the head of his member into your vagina, and wrap your hand around his shaft to keep him from going any deeper than an inch. Gently move up and down until you can’t stand it anymore. Then at last, remove your hand, and go for the full monty.
MAKE IT SEXIER FOR YOU: There are two inure ph ises to going really deep. First, your lower half taps up against his testicles with each thrust, stimulating his nerve-packed scrotum while providing extra feel-good pressure for you. Swivel your hips in a circle during sex to feel each other from all angles. Second, your pubic hones are pressed together when he’s so close, which means your clitoris is receiving major friction … and you’re getting closer to the 0 zone. Play this up more by rocking your hips hack and forth instead of moving up and down.
NAUGHTY BONUS TIP: Head to the couch, and have him sit so he’s slouched a little. (His penis is at the perfect angle to hit your G-spot when he’s positioned like this, Herbenick notes.) Carefully lower your body over him until you’re squatting over his package, with your knees pointed outward. Guide him inside you, and glide up and down along his shaft. You can open your legs much wider than if you were kneeling, which allows him to go even deeper. (Hint: Place your hands on the back of the sofa or his shoulders so you won’t kill your quads.)
He Can Last Longer
When left to their own devices, most men will resort to hard and fast sex, because it’s the easiest way for them to get off, Levine says. But good things come to those who wait—drawing out sex usually yields a more intense orgasm and also gives you a chance to get up to the same speed. When you’re on top, you are in control of his thrusting and can mix in slower movements that help extend the pleasure. “Most women favor a grinding rhythm, while men are stimulated while stroking in and out,” says psychologist Michael Bader, D MH, author of Male Sexuality. When you stick to your favorite motion, he’s able to hold on hanger, making him feel like a serious stud (so everybody wins).
MAKE IT SEXIER FOR YOU: Sprinkle in stops and starts. Pull out midact, and slide the length of his penis in between and around the lips of your labia. This gets your juices flowing because it gives his penis access to sensitive areas it wouldn’t otherwise reach. If you sense he’s approaching the finish line but you’re not ready yet, pause after every 5 to 10 thrusts to give him a deep ldss or ask him to go down on you briefly to get you closer to the big 0. In addition to amusing you more, “breaking up a steady rhythm will stave off his orgasm,” Levine says.
NAUGHTY BONUS TIP: When you’re seconds away from climax, begin firmly squeezing your PC muscles (they’re the ones you’d tighten to stop the flow of urine when you’re peeing). It’ll hold back his orgasm a little bit longer and make the sensations stronger for both of you when you do finally tip over the edge.
Beauty Breakthroughs
The technology being put into beauty products (gene-mutating serums? lifting polymers?) is mind-boggling—frankly, it rivals NASA’s. Which sounds awesome, but without an advanced science degree, how do you know what these ingredients are doing and if they’re right for you? Experts explain the latest breakthroughs…we tell you what really works.
1. Lipsticks That Stay On and Hydrate
We’ve tried long-lasting lipsticks in the past, and yes, they don’t rub off, but your lips feel like they’ve spent a day in the Sahara. The latest crop, however, are packed with new polymers: chains of molecules linked together that, in this case, make pigment stick without feeling like glue. Cosmo staffers tried Giorgio Armani Rouge d’Armani Lipstick, $30, which claims to stay put for eight hours and keep your mouth hydrated for six (thanks to the addition of lightweight oils). After a day of testing, the color lasted past lunch…and it wasn’t until their commute home that some staffers wanted to add a layer of balm.
2. Moisture That Penetrates Your Skin Deeper Than Ever
Most moisturizers sit on top of the skin to seal in moisture—functioning like the cover on a swimming pool, which blocks water from evaporating, says dermatologist Ranella Hirsch. But some of the newest hydrators work in the opposite way. They soak into skin, delivering moisturizing ingredients to its deeper layers. We tried and loved these products, which are leading the pack with this new technology: (1) Dove Nutrium Moisture Body Wash, $3.77, cleans the skin, of course, but also deposits lipids (healthy oils your body makes naturally) down deep. (2) Vaseline Sheer Infusion, $6.25, combines three hydrators: one for the top of the skin (glycerol quat), one that settles into the middle layers (glycerin), and one that passes through to reach the deep parts (urea). (3) Estee Lauder Hydrationist, $38, has water molecules that have been organized (easy enough—kidding!) to penetrate skin better and keep it hydrated longer than the “disorganized” ones in regular water.
3. Vibrating Applicators
The latest mascaras, exfoliators, and powder foundations have been generating quite a buzz—literally. They’re actually powered by tiny batteries that make them tremble gently. In the case of the makeup products (like Lancome Oscillation Power Foundation, $48, and Maybelline Pulse Perfection, $14.95), the motion distributes formulas more evenly. For example, a loose powder smoothens out into a uniform layer on the skin, and a vibrating mascara covers all your lashes without clumping. (There’s no need to use much muscle; with both of these, make very slow, light strokes to get uni-form results.) The exfoliators, like the Neutrogena Wave Duo, $12.99, and Clarisonic Mia face brush, $149, remove old skin cells as they distribute a cleanser or scrub (whatever you decide to put onto the applicator). The good news is that they all worked! And lets just say, they’re a lazy chick’s dream come true.
4. Nail Polishes That Do Five Jobs
The newest polishes aren’t just paint anymore. Take Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure, $7, which combines a base coat, strengthener, growth treatment, color, and topcoat in one bottle. Besides creating a lacquer that is more concentrated than any other Sally Hansen polish, the developers added treatments to the formula. Calcium and sea minerals help your nails grow and get stronger, pearl protein fills in ridges, and marine kelp offers a shiny finish. Since each of these ingredients is put into tiny time-release capsules, they don’t affect the color and will keep working for up to 10 days. Here’s what we discovered: If you want bold, you’ll need to paint on two coats. But you won’t mind; the rectangle-shaped brush fans out, so just one pass (two on thumbs) spreads the paint over your entire nail. What you’ll really freak out over? The finish staying incredibly shiny all week.
5. Advanced Light-Diffusing Pigments
Think back to geology class. Remember the rocks that glimmered even under your science lab’s awful fluorescent lighting? They most likely contained mica, titanium dioxide, or zinc oxide—the same stuff that’s ground up into tiny particles and put in formulas fora light-reflecting effect. Now, these particles are cut and blended in such a way that they not only give you radiance but a very natural-looking one. The idea is that your skin and hair aren’t one uniform shade, so by mixing these rock pigments and cuts, you mimic that color combination and get a realistic glow. We tried Revlon Photo Ready Powder, $12.99, which says that its pigments bend, reflect and diffuse light so that flaws are less noticeable in snapshots. Staffers posed for photos wearing their regular makeup, no makeup, and then this new powder. In the Revlon shots, noses and foreheads looked less greasy, while the rest of the face had a nice shimmer.
6. Collagen-Infused Formulas
Collagen is a protein in our skin that’s responsible for keeping it strong, plump, and flexible. Companies are now putting it into everything from anti-wrinkle creams to lip-plumping glosses to hair-thickening sprays. “When collagen is put on top of the skin or hair, it works as a humectant, which means it draws in moisture,” says cosmetic chemist Nifkita Wilson. “That moisture makes the cells swell and have more elasticity.” One fine-haired staffer tested collagen-infused Got2B FatTastic Non-Aerosol Hairspray, 55.99. After spritzing it on and flipping her head upside down, her hair’s gone-flat problem was solved.
WHEN NOT TO BELIEVE THE HYPE
Look, no formula can perform a miracle. These products overpromise a bit, so just be realistic.
• CELLULITE CURES
They contain vasoconstrictors (Ingredients, like caffeine, that dilate blood vessels), which increase blood circulation to give you a tightening, slimming effect. Unfortunately, the effect lasts only a few hours.
• BUST-ENHANCING CREAMS
These also use blood-circulating ingredients to give an instant yet fleeting tightening feeling. But “no cream is going to make your breasts any bigger or more lifted,” says NYC derm Macrene Alexiades.
• LASH GROWERS
These serums encourage healthy growth. They’re full of moisturizing ingredients that create an environment where hair can grow…but whether it does is not guaranteed. The only FDA-approved product is Latisse, for which you need a prescription.
Source: Cosmopolitan January 2010
New Year Wishes and New Year Quotations to Send to Your Beloved Ones
New Year wishes and quotations may give you inspiration to start the new year. Before the new year begins, you may send your family and friends New Year wishes or quotations and bless them with good health, wealth dan prosperity. It may not hard to do for some people, but others may need help on what to say to do that. Below are some New Year wishes and quotations you can send to your loved ones. I hope those can give benefit for anyone. HAPPY NEW YEAR…!
POPULAR NEW YEAR WISHES
1. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
-Lord Tennyson-
2. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.
-Sir Walter Scott-
3. New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
-James Agate-
3. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!
-Joey Adams-
4. From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
-Leonard Bernstein-
5. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
-Author Unknown-
6. Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow.
-Emily Miller-
7. Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”
-William Arthur Ward-
NEW YEAR QUOTATIONS
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~Charles Lamb
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge
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
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
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
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take 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. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood
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. ~Brooks Atkinson
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde
Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther
A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide
When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror’s face
and find in it, the yearly pace.
~E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)
I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno
We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ~William Thomas
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~Joey Adams
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. ~Henry Moore
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. ~Thomas Mann
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin
Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? ~John Dos Passos, 1917
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
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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. Auden
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
FUNNY NEW YEAR QUOTATIONS
Mark Twain
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.
Bill Vaughan
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
P. J. O’Rourke
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.
Jay Leno
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.
James Agate
New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Charles Lamb
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
Mark Twain
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.
Judith Crist
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.
Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
Joey Adams
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!
Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Robert Paul
I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
Anonymous
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.
Leonard Bernstein
From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
G. K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
