New Year Quotes
Best New Year Quotations
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." - By Bill Vaughn
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - By Benjamin Franklin
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." - By Charles Lamb
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - By Bill Vaughan
New Year Quotes
"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." - By Charles Lamb
"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty." - By John Selden
"The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn." - By Hartley Coleridge
"And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen." - By Thomas Hood
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." - By Hal Borland
"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." - By T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." - By Hamilton Wright Mabie
Happy New Year Quotes
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - By Henry Ward Beecher
"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever." - By Mark Twain
"ach age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer." - By Walter Scott
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." - By Oscar Wilde
"When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror's face
and find in it, the yearly pace." - By E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue
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