Old Year Quotes - Page 2

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rainer Maria Rilke

New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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

George William Curtis

New Year, Determination, Years

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

Charles Lamb

Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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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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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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Let each new year find you a better person.

Benjamin Franklin

New Year, Years, Best Year

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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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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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New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Jay Leno

New Year, Holiday, Years

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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Andre Gide

New Year, Holiday, Years

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

Joey Lauren Adams

New Year, Holiday, Blessing

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I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

William Arthur Ward

Inspiring, New Year, Song

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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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If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Cyril Cusack

Inspirational, New Year, Who I Am

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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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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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This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

Douglas Coupland

Moving, Home, School

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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

New Year, Dream, Lying

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

Madeleine L'Engle

New Year, Years, Year End

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.5, Open Road Media

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The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear. So let us leave the old year with gratitude to God for its mercies, and with penitence for its failures and sins; and let us enter the new year with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the holiest and most beautiful year we have ever lived.

J.R. Miller

Beautiful, New Year, Gratitude

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When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Fall, Light, Years

Jayne Anne Phillips (2014). “Quiet Dell: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

Robert W. Service

Years, Progress, Lasts

ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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