“Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”
William Arthur Ward
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Charles Lamb
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.
W.H. Auden
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Charles Lamb
Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.
William Thomas
I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
Robert Paul
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.
Martin Luther
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
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
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.
Henry Moore
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
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden
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.
Martin Luther
