"Here's
to the bright New Year,
and a fond farewell to the
old; here's to the things
that are yet to come, and
to the memories that we
hold."
-- Anonymous
"People
are so worried about what
they eat between Christmas
and the New Year, but they
really should be worried
about what they eat between
the New Year and Christmas."
-- Anonymous
"A
new year is unfolding –
like a blossom with petals
curled tightly concealing
the beauty within."
-- Anonymous
"Let
us not drink to the past,
but to the future."
-- Anonymous
"The
new year begins in a snow-storm
of white vows."
-- George William Curtis
"The
New Year, like an Infant
Heir to the whole world,
was waited for, with welcomes,
presents, and rejoicings."
-- Charles Dickens
"For
last year's words belong
to last year's language
And next year's words await
another voice. And to make
an end is to make a beginning."
-- T.S. Eliot
"Be
at war with your vices;
at peace with your neighbors,
and let every new year find
you a better man."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"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
"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. ORourke
"We
will open the book. Its
pages are blank. We are
going to put words on them
ourselves. The book is called
Opportunity and its first
chapter is New Year's Day."
-- Edith Lovejoy Pierce
"The
Old Year has gone. Let the
dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession
of the clock of time. All
hail the duties and possibilities
of the coming twelve months!"
-- Edward Payson Powell
"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."
-- Lord Tennyson
"It
wouldn't be New Year's if
I didn't have regrets."
-- William Thomas
"Your
Merry Christmas may depend
on what others do for you
... but your Happy New Year
depends on what you do for
others."
-- Unknown
"A
New Year's resolution is
something that goes in one
Year and out the other."
-- Unknown
"Many
people look forward to the
New Year for a new start
on old habits."
-- Unknown
"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
"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
"It
Depends on Us... Another
year lies before us like
an unwritten page, an unspent
coin, an unwalked road.
the pages will read, what
treasures will be gained
in exchange for time, or
what we find alone the way,
will largely depend on us."
-- Esther Baldwin York
