New Year’s Quotations

Let us dare to dream of a peace that the world has never known.
~Coretta Scott King

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? 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, Bridget Jones’s Diary