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 – Anais 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn – Hartley Coleridge.

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

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

New year, same goal – Joe King.

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

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.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right – Oprah Winfrey.

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