New Year Quotes

New Year is a time to look back and forwards, reflecting and reviewing. It’s also a time of celebration, frolics, fireworks and maybe some New Year resolutions.  Here are 10 of my favourite quirky quotes for the New Year – funny, inspiring and true!

1. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” Billy Vaughan

2.  The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” – P. J. O’Rourke

3.  “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” – Anonymous

4.  “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year leaves.” – Billy Vaughn

5.  “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.” – William Thomas

6.  “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

7. “I would say Happy New Year but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.” –Robert Clark

8. “Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average, which means you’ve already met your New Year’s resolution.” – Jay Leno

9. “We will open the book. Its pages 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

10. “Write on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson