Old Year Quotations

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

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.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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.

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?

Let each new year find you a better person.