Quotes

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
-Anonymous Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
-Benjamin Franklin

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
-John Selden

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.
-Anonymous Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
-Anonymous Author

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
-Hartley Coleridge

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
-George William Curtis

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.
-Walter Scott

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

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