Great New Year's Quotes!

Funny New Year Quotes
From Simran Khurana,
Your Guide to Quotations.

Welcome the New Year With a Smile

The New Year may be a significant event for many people. But the absurdities of the celebration cannot escape a skeptic's mind. Here are some funny New Year quotes. What better way to start a New Year than with a hearty laugh? You can share your joy by greeting everybody with these funny New Year quotes.

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.

Brooks Atkinson
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.

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.

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.

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Hot Chicago Neighborhood! Humboldt Park

BY PATRICIA STAHL
Realtor Magazine OnLine

Chicago’s Near West Side is hot right now, as urban redevelopment proceeds in concentric circles from the city’s central business district. Developers and real estate practitioners are edging further west, where land is cheaper, to accommodate the intense demand. The latest neighborhood to experience resurgence is Humboldt Park, the heart of the city’s Puerto Rican community.

Once home to Eastern European immigrants, the area changed character in the 1960s, when Puerto Ricans migrated west in search of affordable housing. White flight, commercial disinvestment, municipal neglect, and bank redlining took a toll on the neighborhood over the next 20 years. Housing values plummeted to about 60 percent of the citywide average, and the area succumbed to gangs and crime.

Jose Acevedo, broker-owner of Landmark Heritage Realty located in heart of Humboldt Park, grew up in the area during those turbulent times. Now, 25 years later, he’s in on its revival. The biggest marketing challenge right now, he says, is to overcome the neighborhood’s negative reputation. One strategy real estate professionals are using is to give it a new identity.

“It’s a sprawling area with a lot of variation, so we broke it down into smaller segments and renamed them North, South, East, and West Humboldt Park,” Acevedo says. “In fact, we now refer to the northeast portion as ‘West Bucktown’ to convey the idea that it will enjoy the same surge in property values as its neighbor.”

Despite its edgy reputation, Humboldt Park is a magnet for newcomers because it offers amenities that few other communities possess—a 207-acre park with a beach, a swimming pool, lagoons for fishing and boating, 15 baseball diamonds, 11 tennis courts, several playgrounds, bike paths, sprinklers, and formal gardens, among other perks.

The housing stock varies greatly within Humboldt Park, ranging from modest frame teardowns to stately graystones. On the side streets, large apartment buildings flank rows of solid single-family homes and duplexes. Prices depend not only on the quality of the homes, but also on how much the area has been redeveloped. “Houses are cheaper at the western end, which has seen less development, but the area overall is still affordable,” Acevedo says.

According to Chicago Magazine’s annual home price guide, Humboldt Park’s average sale price from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002, was $113,507. The average sale price for a single-family home in Humboldt Park for the first half of 2003 was $212,525.

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