SCENE + HEARD: Just For Fun Hear/Say By Staff Monday, December 14, 2015 12:00 AM “Hope, smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’...” – Alfred Lord Tennyson “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 “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 “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 “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan “Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.” – John Selden