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
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
André Gide
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Ellen Goodman
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
Jean Paul
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
Alfred Tennyson
I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver.
Kim Kardashian
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 would say happy new year but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.
Robert Clark
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.
William Thomas
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.
Dave Beard
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
Joey Adams
My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
James Lafferty
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Charles Lamb
New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
Jay Leno
New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
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 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
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
G.K. Chesterton
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
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T S Eliot
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
Eminem
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
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
What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.
Vern McLellan
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to.
Bill Vaughn
