In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
A new heart for a New Year, always!
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.'Mum! I can't give a professor !''But you Neville-'James rolled his eyes.'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him ....
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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