New Year Quotes

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

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

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.
- Anais Nin

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
- F.M. Knowles

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

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

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
- John Burroughs

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
- Andre Gide

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