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My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.
Sep 29, 2025
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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.
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.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Let each new year find you a better person.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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.
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.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
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.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
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.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.