Funny New Years Eve Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• 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

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

  Robert Burns

  Friendship, Should, Acquaintance

  "Auld Lang Syne" l. 1 (1796). JamesWatson, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711), contains a ballad beginning: "Should old acquaintance be forgot, / And never thought upon, / The flames of love extinguished, / And freely past and gone? / Is thy kind heart now grown so cold / In that loving breast of thine, / That thou canst never once reflect / On old-long-syne?"

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• My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Girl, New Year, Years

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• Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

  Robert Burns

  New Year, Kindness, Mind

  Robert Burns (2016). “Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems”, p.96, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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• 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, Years, Great Year

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

  Eric Zorn

  Funny, New Year, Honesty

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"

  Jon Stewart

  New Year, Squares, Years

  Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005.

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• 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, Memories, Holiday

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  Walter Scott

  New Year, Cheer, Holiday

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.152, e-artnow

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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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