From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
Leonard Bernstein – New Year
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln – New Year
The new year begins in a snowstorm of white vows.
George William Curtis – New Year
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide – New Year
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 – New Year
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
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Marie Edgeworth – New Year
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!
Edward Payson Powell
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. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
G. K. Chesterton – New Year
Each age has deemed the new-born year; The fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott – New Year
On New Year’s Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them
Nick Hornby – New Year
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.
William Thomas – New Year
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 – New Year
The author’s conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
