New Year Quotes

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.  ~ Dave Beard


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


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


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


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


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


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


New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.  ~ Jay Leno


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


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


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


For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.  ~ T.S. Eliot


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~ Bill Vaughn


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


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


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


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.  ~ Henry Moore


Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.  ~ Brad Paisley


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


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


I would say happy new year but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.  ~ Robert Clark


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


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


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