Some reflections on the New Year
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
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
- Charles Lamb
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 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
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
- Henry Ward Beecher
New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving [the road to] hell with them as usual.
- Mark Twain
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
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Author Unknown
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde
New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
- Jay Leno
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
- G.K. Chesterton
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
- Jean Paul Richter
And my personal favorite…
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
- Joey Adams
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