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

—Benjamin Franklin

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

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

—George William Curtis

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

—Oscar Wilde

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

—William Thomas

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.  

—Ellen Goodman

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.  

—Henry Moore

I made no resolutions for the New Year.  The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.  

—Anaïs Nin

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

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  

—Thomas Mann

The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel.  Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.  

—W.H. Auden

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice. / And to make an end is to make a beginning.                                                                 —T.S. Eliot

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.  

—Jean Paul Richter