New Year's Eve Quotes - Page 2

• 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, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Old Year

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

  Dave Beard

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  George William Curtis

  New Year, Determination, Years

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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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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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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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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• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

  John Selden

  New Year, Resolution, Happy New Year

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• the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, Holiday

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• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  Walter Scott

  New Year, Cheer, Holiday

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.152, e-artnow

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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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• May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  New Year, Holiday, Blessing

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• Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• 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, Years, Great Year

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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