New Years Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old new years quotes, new years sayings, and new years proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William Curtis
The merry hear is born. Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. Hartley Coleridge
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
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. Edward Payson Powell
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. Edward Payson Powell
All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! Edward Payson Powell
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
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
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. Michael Josephson
We will open the book. It's page are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce