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.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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.
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.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
or simply: