The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should read more

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless read more

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

Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh read more

Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the read more

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

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of read more

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!

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when read more

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.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book read more

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.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.