New Year Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Ushering in a new year? Check out this collection of New Year quotes and sayings as you celebrate this holiday and a new beginning. Some are inspirational, while some are funny.

“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
– Aeschylus

“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.”
– Akhenaton

“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

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”
– Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
– Barbara Walters

“My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.”
– Ben Stiller

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
– Bill Vaughn

“To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”
– Bobby Bowden

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
– Brad Paisley

“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

“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
– Carl Sandburg

“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?”
– Catherine O’Hara

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
– Cavett Robert

“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”
– Charles Lamb

“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

“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”
– Cyril Cusack

“I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.”
– Debbie Harry

“To be an ideal guest, stay at home.”
– E. W. Howe

“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

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul”
– G. K. Chesterton

“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”
– George William Curtis

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”
– Goran Persson

“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

“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 on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”
– Helen Fielding

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
– Helen Keller

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
– James Agate

“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.”
– Jay Leno

“New year, same goal.”
– Joe King

“We meet today

To thank Thee for the era done,

And Thee for the opening one”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
– Jonathan Edwards

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.”
– Judith Crist

“I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver.”
– Kim Kardashian

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.”
– Mark Twain

“New Year’s Day – Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
– Mark Twain

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