New Year's Quotes to Ring in 2011

Carol Whyte
Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you ... but your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others. - Author unknown

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

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

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. - Irish Proverb

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! Edward Payson Powell

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

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

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. - William Thomas

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

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughn

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

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

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

Published by Carol Whyte

Previous freelance writer for two business magazines, on-line contributor for Yahoo! Contributor Network, and National Examiner. Consistently awarded YCN's Top 100/500 and listed as Top 1000 for 2009 and 2010.  View profile

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  • giovanni12/30/2010

    Enjoyed 'em! Happy New Year.

  • Jenny Heart12/28/2010

    Enjoyed reading these! Still having computer problems. so bear with me until I can get mine fixed. Hugs!

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