may all your troubles last as long as your new year's resolutions. ————joey adams

　　he who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.————f.m. knowles

　　i think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ————henry moore

　　every man regards his own life as the new year's eve of time. ————jean paul richter

　　it wouldn't be new year's if i didn't have regrets. ————william thomas

　　we meet today to thank thee for the era done, and thee for the opening one.————john greenleaf whittier

　　one resolution i have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things. ————john burroughs

　　of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year. ————charles lamb

　　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

　　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. ————g.k. chesterton

　　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

　　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

　　why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? i want an interregnum. the stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like new year's and easter and christmas - but, goodness, why need they do it? ————john dos passos, 1917

　　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

　　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

　　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