New Year Quotes - Quotations

"A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within."

"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. "------Charles Lamb

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

"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

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."
John Selden
"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice. 
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
T.S. Eliot (Little Gidding)
"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 (1850)

"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

"New Years Day is every mans birthday."

Charles Lamb