 | "New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."
- Jay Leno
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| "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
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| "New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
- Charles Lamb
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| I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
- Robert Paul
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| "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
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| "Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."
- John Selden
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| "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
, Little Gidding. |
| "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
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| "The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn."
- Hartley Coleridge
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| "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
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