New Years Toast Quotes - Page 2

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Faith, Future

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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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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• 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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• He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  New Year, Holiday, Old Year

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• Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

  Phyllis McGinley

  New Year, Years, Drinking Toast

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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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• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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• From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, New Year, Years

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• A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

  Edgar Guest

  New Year, Eye, Holiday

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• For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Moving, Inspiration

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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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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

  William Feather

  Success, Deeds, Resolve

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• God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

  Addison Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

  "The Complete Cynic".

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• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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