“New Year's Day - 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
“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.”
Old Irish toast
“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
“This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
“Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled to the full with meaning and with love.”
Contributed by: Anna Williams
Norman Vincent Peale
“The woodcut New Year pictures are usually put up on windows or walls five days before the New Year's Day to express good wishes for the coming year.”
Guo Shurong
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin