Resolutions are on the air since New Years Eve is near, everyone is thinking about a fresh start. In order to make your toast extra special on New Year’s, we’ve compiled a list of some famous New Year’s quotes and Happy New Year’s resolutions from celebrities and notable people throughout history. quotes that are great way to reflect on years past, and also to look forward to the future.
Here are some of our favorite New Year’s quotes and sayings…a few are actually quite funny!
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” -Charles Lamb
“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.” -John Selden
“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
“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
‘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
“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
“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” -Author Unknown
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
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” -Oscar Wilde
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.” -Andre Gide
“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” -Dave Beard
“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” -Jay Leno
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs
“It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.” -William Thomas
“We spend January 1 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
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” -Joey Adams
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.” -F.M. Knowles
“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 afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” -G.K. Chesterton
“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
“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.” -Anaïs Nin
“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
“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
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” - Oprah Winfrey
“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
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
“I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” -Robert Paul
“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” - Jay Leno
“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” - Author Unknown
“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
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.” - Andre Gide