Old Year Quotes

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  • I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

  • No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

    New Year   Time   Years  
    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17
  • I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

    Memories   Book   Reading  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  • All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

    "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.
  • Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

    Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345
  • Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  • Let the dead Past bury its dead!

    "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)
  • The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

    Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54
  • I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics
  • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

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

  • This bright new year is given me

    William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”
  • When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

    Fall   Light   Years  
    Jayne Anne Phillips (2014). “Quiet Dell: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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.

    In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)
  • Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

    Charles Dickens (1873). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.162
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
  • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  • One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

  • Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

    Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009
  • This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

    Moving   Home   School  
  • I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.

    Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com
  • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

    FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012
  • But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

  • The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.49, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

    ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”
  • Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

    Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”
  • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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