Here I share some quotations I have been sent.
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 think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
- Henry Moore
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
- Anon
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas But, goodness, why need they do it?
- John Dos Passos
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
- Eric Zorn
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.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!
- Joey Adams
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'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.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
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
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
- William Thomas
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
- Jay Leno