“A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world.”
Pope John Paul II
“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.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
“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
“Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.”
Phil Savage
“I wish you a happy New Year, ... I wish you happiness, all the very best. I want you to know that Russia highly appreciates what you are doing.”
Vladimir Putin
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.”
Old Irish toast