New Year Quotes

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

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

William Thomas

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Burroughs

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

G. K. Chesterton

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

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 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

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

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

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hartley Coleridge