Radical Reprise: New Year’s Quotes for the Signs

Aries ~ New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb

Taurus ~ Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde

Gemini ~ May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams

Cancer ~ It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas

Leo ~ Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter

Virgo ~ 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

Bonus for All Signs: A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Libra ~ 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

Scorpio ~ New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno

Sagittarius ~ 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

Capricorn ~ Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb

Aquarius ~ Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Pisces ~ Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

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More Quotes for the Signs. Quotes for the Signs #1, Quotes #2, Quotes #3, Quotes #4, and Holiday Quotes for the Signs.

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Signs of Halloween: Quotes and Warnings Around the Zodiac

© 2012 by Joyce Mason
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Boo-ware of angry or cranky zodiacal creatures this Halloween season! They may be dressed as your husband, wife, lover, friend or children, but during this celebration of the dark side, be watchful of what goes bump in the night—or maybe in broad daylight!

ARIES: “I like sharp knives.” ~ Aries overheard

TAURUS: Beware of little old ladies with tea and sympathy—or an ex bearing chocolates.
~ Anonymous

GEMINI: The tongue is like a sharp knife. It kills without drawing blood. ~ Buddha

CANCER: You love me so much; you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. ~ DH Lawrence

LEO: "Bow or die!" ~ Still ringing in the ears of Leo's ex-spouse

VIRGO: Remember Virgo’s shared fondness with Tony Soprano and “family” for using bleach. ~ The Radical Virgo

LIBRA:  Kills with kindness. ~ Folk phrase invented to describe angry Libra

SCORPIO: “Stinger?” ~ Seductive Scorp, offering cocktail

SAGITTARIUS: Beware of arrowing experiences. ~ Auntie Joyce

CAPRICORN: Don’t assume the handcuffs are for play. ~ Narrowly escaped former love interest

AQUARIUS:  “I’m wired for shock. Are you?” ~ Water Bearer carrying two buckets

PISCES: Name your poison. ~ Common way to ask what kind of drink you want (hehehehehe)

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For more Radical repartée about All Hallow’s Eve, read or reread these past posts:

Scorpio for a Day   ~ A little Halloween humor, OK, maybe a lot. See how each of the 12 signs would  dress up as Scorpio for Halloween.
Happy Haunting from The Radical Virgo ~ Some lore about the season of guts 'n' gore.
Halloween Treat Break! ~ Costumes I've had the nerve to wear with embarrassing photo illustrations. What other holiday can you do things like this without getting locked up?

Quotes for the Signs #9

         An ongoing feature on The Radical Virgo

ARIES: The first quality that is needed is audacity. 
 

~ Winston Churchill

TAURUS: Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
 

~ Mariska Hargitay

GEMINI:  There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. 

~ Frank Howard Clark
 

CANCER: They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

~ Princess Diana (Cancer Sun)
 

LEO: A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

~ Wesley Snipes (Leo Sun)

VIRGO - We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

~ E.B. White

LIBRA - Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. 
 
~ Carl Reiner

SCORPIO – The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

~ Jane Roberts

SAGITTARIUS – Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

~ Gandhi

CAPRICORN – Respect yourself and others will respect you.   

~ Confucius, Sayings of Confucius

AQUARIUS  - What is a rebel? A man who says no.

~ Albert Camus

PISCES - The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. 

~Elbert Hubbard

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Photo Credit: Zodiac signs, © Evilin | Dreamstime.com. Wise Skies quotes collage by Joyce

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Quotes for the Signs #8

 

Our last Quotes for the Signs appeared in February. I hope you enjoy this eighth star-studded Quotefest!

ARIES –  Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. ~ Rita Mae Brown

TAURUS – Plodding wins the race. ~ Aesop (Remember the Tortoise and the Hare)
 

GEMINI:  Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~ Nancy Willard

CANCER: The times I spend with you had some thorns. But the times I missed you had no roses. ~ K. Gopinathan

LEO: Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. ~ John Bradshaw

VIRGO - Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. ~ Wendell Phillips

LIBRA - The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. ~ Robert Anthony

SCORPIO - The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. ~ Van Wyck Brooks

SAGITTARIUS - It is better to travel well than to arrive. ~ Buddha

CAPRICORN - Achievement brings its own anticlimax. ~ Maya Angelou

AQUARIUS - If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. ~ Claude McKay
 

PISCES - A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~ Oscar Wilde

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Quotes for the Signs #7

© 2011 by Joyce Mason

All Rights Reserved

Long time, no quotes! Here’s the seventh batch in a growing line of quotes and Sun sign pairings, one of the more popular features on The Radical Virgo. Don’t forget; you can submit your favorites for future Quotes for the signs—even your own good words that have a certain sign’s name on them. You will be credited! Meanwhile, enjoy these latest words of wisdom.

ARIES: Practice fire safety—watch what you heat.  ~ Author Unknown

TAURUS: In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ~ One of Cesar Chavez's favorite quotes from Gandhi

GEMINI:  To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ~ Hugh Laurie, Gemini

CANCER:  The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~ Dodie Smith

LEO: A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. ~ Lenny Kravitz

VIRGO: In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy. ~ Hippocrates

LIBRA: You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.  ~ George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"

SCORPIO: There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.  ~ Carol Shields

SAGITTARIUS: Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.  ~ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894

CAPRICORN: The difference between a boss and a leader—a boss says, “Go!”—a leader says, “Let’s go.” ~ E.M. Kelly

AQUARIUS: "Being who we are rather than becoming who everyone says we must be is the ultimate simplicity. Nothing is more difficult to acquire in life."  ~ Joan Chittister

PISCES: What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? ~ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

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Quotes for the Signs #6

Aries: To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Taurus: Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

~ Mae West

Gemini: I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

~ Albert Einstein

Cancer:

Seek a sanctuary,
Respect it, as it is holy,
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing,
Nurture your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual,
Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

~ Master Jin Kwon

Leo: Adults are obsolete children.

~ Denis Diderot

Virgo: From a drop of water a logician could predict an Atlantic or a Niagara.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Libra: Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

~ Henry Louis Mencken

Scorpio: Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Sagittarius: It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

~ Robert Heinlein

Capricorn: A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

~ Paul Valery

Aquarius: Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

 ~ James Broughton

Pisces: Faith is a passionate intuition.

~ William Wordsworth

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