happy new years quotes.

1. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to.

2. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

3. Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.

4. A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

5. Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.

6. 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.

7. New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

8. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

9. Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

10. The merry year is born

Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.