Funny Happy New Year Quotes:

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Mistake, Years, Forever, Inspirational New Year, My Wish For You

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Science, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

- John Selden

topic: New Year, Happy New Year, Resolution, Spiritual New Year, New Years Resolution

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Eye, Indian Happy New Year, January 1st

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: New Year, Mistake, Years, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Trying Something New

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

- Brad Paisley

source: Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

topic: New Year, Book, Writing, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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

- Ellen Goodman

topic: New Year, Years, Rooms, January 1, January 1st

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

- Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

topic: New Year, Holiday, Old Year, Spiritual New Year, Christian New Year

I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

- Robert Clark

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Last Year

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

topic: New Year, Years, Long, Funny Happy New Year, Funny New Years Eve

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Happy, New Year, Rings, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

- Walter Scott

topic: New Year, Cheer, Holiday, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

topic: Happiness, Hope, New Year, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Beginning

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

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Motivational, Christmas, New Year, Spiritual New Year, Year One

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

topic: New Year, Fun, New Beginnings, Another Year, Spiritual New Year

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

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Indian Happy New Year, Happy New Year

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: New Year, Nature, New Beginnings, Inspirational New Beginning, Inspirational New Year

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

- Andre Gide

topic: New Year, Years, Old Habits, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: New Year, Sweet, Light, Wishes And Hopes, Funny Happy New Year

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: New Year, Moving, Inspiration, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

- Charles Lamb

topic: New Year, Firsts, Common, Christian New Year, Funny Happy New Year

What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"

- Jon Stewart

source: Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005.

topic: New Year, Squares, Years, Times Square, Funny Happy New Year

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 me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Life, New Year, Indian Happy New Year, January 1st

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.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

source: Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

topic: New Year, Night, Men, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

- Charles Lamb

topic: New Year, Holiday, Years, Solemn, New Years Resolution

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

- Sydney Smith

topic: New Year, Years, Three, Funny Happy New Year

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

- Catherine O'Hara

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, New Year, Writing, New Years Resolution, Funny Happy New Year

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

- Joey Lauren Adams

topic: New Year, Holiday, Blessing, Indian Happy New Year, Last Year

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

- James Agate

source: James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

topic: New Year, Years, Doe, Spiritual New Year, Happy New Year

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

- Edgar Guest

topic: New Year, Eye, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Years, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

- Dave Beard

topic: New Year, Years, Resolution, Days Of The Year, New Years Resolution

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: New Year, Cheer, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Another Year

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Birthday, New Year, Holiday, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

- Mark Twain

topic: New Year, Years, Friendly, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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

topic: New Year, Hangover, Thinking, Days Of The Year, Christian New Year

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Indian Happy New Year, Daily Living

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Indian Happy New Year, Joy And Sadness

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

- George William Curtis

topic: New Year, Determination, Years, Christian New Year, New Years Resolution

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.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: New Year, Memories, Holiday, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

- Eric Zorn

topic: New Year, Honesty, Humility, Spiritual New Year, Funny Happy New Year

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

- Jay Leno

topic: New Year, Holiday, Years, Spiritual New Year, New Years Resolution

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.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Clever, Spiritual New Year, Christian New Year

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

- John Burroughs

topic: Inspirational, Funny, New Year, Spiritual New Year, Christian New Year

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

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings, Indian Happy New Year, Another Year

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

- Tom Peters

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Gratitude, Celebrate Life, Appreciate What You Have