Happy New Year Quotes - Page 4

• And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

  Minnie Louise Haskins

  New Year, Fear, Men

  Desert (1908) "God Knows"

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• 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

  New Year, Time, Easter

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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Clever, Party

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896)

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• Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, New Year, Mean

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

  Hartley Coleridge

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

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• I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

  Robert Clark

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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• 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

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivational, New Year, Knowing

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• 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

  Funny, New Year, Honesty

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• Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

  Judith Crist

  Funny, New Year, Years

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• Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Life, New Year

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.44

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• Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.

  Emily J. Miller

  New Year, Cheer, Heart

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• 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

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• This bright new year is given me
  To live each day with zest
  To daily grow and try to be
  My highest and my best!

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Zest, Years

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Karma, Dream

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

  Melody Beattie

  New Year, Live Life, Years

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• This bright new year is given me

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Old Year, Zest

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  New Year, Time, Years

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