“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
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” ~ Thomas Mann
“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
“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
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ~ T.S. Eliot
“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.” ~ John Selden
“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
“Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer.” ~ Sir Walter Scott
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.” ~ Andre Gide
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” ~ John Burroughs
“From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.” ~ Leonard Bernstein
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ~ Ellen Goodman
“I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” ~ Robert Paul
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” ~ Joey Adams
“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
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” ~ Henry Moore
“No reason to wait for the new year to get it right, take the chance now.” ~ Nikiana
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