Happy New Year Eve Quotes by Charles Lamb, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, P. J. O’Rourke, Albert Einstein, Goran Persson and many others.
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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.
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.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
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.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.
