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Youth is when you're allowed
to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced
to. Bill Vaughn
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
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old
habits. Author Unknown
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out
the other.
Author Unknown
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is
that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It
is the nativity of our common Adam.
Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a
duty. John Selden
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
The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Hartley Coleridge
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the
march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created
things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and
yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with
the coming of darkness on other nights. Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New
Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties
and possibilities of the coming twelve months! Edward Payson
Powell
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
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. P.J. O'Rourke
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start
with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary,
or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of
January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the
front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William
Curtis
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, "Little Gidding"
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put
words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and
swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.
Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the
winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably
shorter than ever. Mark Twain
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
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
Thomas Hood
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. Brooks Atkinson
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where
they have no account. Oscar Wilde
Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
Martin Luther
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and
frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,
it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. Mark
Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live
according to twenty-year-old habits. Andre Gide
I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to
begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension
of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot
be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much
nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good
idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to
consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease
your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions
began generally on January the second.
Helen Fielding, Bridget
Jones's Diary
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of
course, those tests come back positive. Jay Leno
We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
John Greenleaf Whittier
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise
above the little things. John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal
which rings out the Old Year. Charles Lamb
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
Edgar Guest
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. William Thomas
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing
up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year,
to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our
lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. Ellen Goodman
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
F.M. Knowles
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. G.K.
Chesterton
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. Henry
Moore
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a
thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a
new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we
mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
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. Anaοs Nin
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the
instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an
interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never
stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at
festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness,
why need they do it?
John Dos Passos, 1917
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.
Mark Twain
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. Jean
Paul Richter
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
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New Year Quotations