Famous sayings, quotes from famous people

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

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
~Joey Adams

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
~Bill Vaughn

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

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 Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time
~James Agate

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining
~Leonard Bernstein

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.
~Unknown

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