New Year Quotes – New Year Festival
New Year Resolutions Quotes
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
Author UnknownA New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Author Unknown
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis
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
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
John Burroughs
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
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.
Henry Moore
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.
Anaïs Nin
New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
New year, same goal.
Joe King
Selected New Year Quotations
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Charles LambThe merry year is bornLike the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Hartley Coleridge
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
Each age has deemed the new born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer
Walter Scott
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
Bill Vaughnv
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
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
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
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
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 yearThe fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
We meet todayTo thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Charles Lamb
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.
William Thomas
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
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