New Year Quotes and Sayings

New Year’s Day:  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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.  ~Author Unknown

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.  ~Anaïs Nin

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.  ~Charles Lamb

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.  ~Mark Twain

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

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown

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 paid off, someone is bound to be left in tears.  ~W.H. Auden

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

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.  ~Henry Moore

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.  ~Michael Josephson

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.  ~Joey Adams

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan

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

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.  ~William Thomas

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland

New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.  ~Jay Leno