New Year quotations

December 30, 2008 by · No comments

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

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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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

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 Powell

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

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