Category: New year Quotes SMS

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam.  ~Charles Lamb”New Year’s Eve,” London Magazine, Jan 1821 and Essays of Elia, 1823; CTO

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

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.  ~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com2012mail

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

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. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H. 106; CTO

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 […]

When then is lost, as time is by, we look upon the yearly wine to see our substance in the lees. Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave? To look for clear and faithful sense, that gives a bodied stance bouquet, then see the vat at mirror’s face and find in it, the yearly pace. […]

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 […]

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley ColeridgeCOE

Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.  ~Charles Lamb

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

A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.  ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885

I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you?  Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.  Also dieting […]

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

Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time?  I want an interregnum.  The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas […]

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.  ~John SeldenCD

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.  ~George William CurtisCOE

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

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 PowellCOE

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ~Walter Scott

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

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

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. ~John Greenleaf WhittierCOE

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

And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast, And been bow’d to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury – Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New […]