5 Best New Year's Toasts

5 Great Toasts for the New Year Using a Very Unusual Source

Terri Rawls
Terri Rawls, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Dec 11, 2009 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
As is tradition, thousands of toast will be made as we say goodbye to the passing year and welcome in the hopes of a new year. Many of the well wishes will come from traditional Irish toasts such as "In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship but never in want." Others will recite a poem or borrow a famous quote like "May you live all the days of your life' or "Dance as if no one is watching, sing as if no one were listening and live everyday as if it were your last."

This year, as you prepare to take your stand, how about looking beyond the typical sources and consider sharing something from the late Theodor Seuss Gisel? What's that? You say you don't know who that is? Let me introduce you to five of my favorite quotes from Mr. Gisel; better known as Dr. Seuss. All five would make a perfectly dazzling New Year's toast. See if you don't agree.

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."

"I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. My troubles are going to have troubles with me."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so...get on your way!"

"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?"

Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss

Published by Terri Rawls

I live just outside a small West Texas town where I have raised three children and am now getting even with them by spoiling their kids. I hold an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Development and hav...  View profile

  • Thousands of New Year's toasts are made.
  • Most toasts are made using traditional sources.
  • Try a creative approach when planning your New Year's toast.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist who published children's books under a very famous pen name. Many of his books are thought to have been used to express his views on many social and political issues.

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  • Barbara Barker12/16/2009

    I will remember the one, How did it get so late so soon. I loved it.It reminds me of life and how fast the years have passed by.The perfect toast....

  • Pamela Gifford12/14/2009

    I love this, Terri! Perfect New Years, quotes.

  • Daniel12/12/2009

    ~** Absolutely Awe Inspiring! **~
    And I "will" tell you why...

    .....If You Ask!

    But I will say... it was exactly as described, and aside from the quotes, it showed ~involved~ insight and united two ....or rather...is resulting from two powerfully formed lines to inside minds, and becoming a deeply attractive lure that opens up the "hope "centers and appealing to those who may read him in tine of crisis and really be inspired by rhymes that we heard that ((Rang)) true and familiar, and evokes an association that has been hidden until The Author brought some powerful words to the surface of people's minds, that reflected on being their very own childhood rhymes, that meant a world of a difference and now I get it!!!!

    End result....Genius! Thanks for the inspiration at a good time!

    Will Look to read other Articles from you here!

    Burning Brightly In Central NJ!

  • Tera12/12/2009

    Dr. Suess was extremely wise, I have to agree. Some of his books (The Lorax; The Butter Battle Book; etc) still make me cry, they are so telling. :)

  • Donna Malone12/12/2009

    Very Cool....and your right, would never have thought that about Dr. Seuss.

  • Terri Rawls12/12/2009

    Thanks for the encouragement! Now if I can just it into action for myself.

  • Melissa Rawls12/12/2009

    Love it Terri. I believe my New Years Toast is going to be "You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so...get on your way!" Because I know I will have my great place someday before long and I am so excited.

  • Pat Compton12/12/2009

    Wonderful thoughts - I like very much and will try all of them out!!

  • CJ Little12/12/2009

    Who would have thought a children's author could come up with some of the best New Year's toasts?

  • Shane Compton12/12/2009

    Wow you hit it right on the nose this is awsome!!!!

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