Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
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.
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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.
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!
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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.
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.
