2017 New Year Quotes and Sayings Collections

While the ending of one calendar year and the beginning of the next may not seem a significant event to all, it does provide a good excuse to celebrate. Whether you question the significance of the actual event, dismiss it, poke fun at it, or just go along with the crowd, everyone has something to say about the change of year, and all that it signifies. Collection on New Year quotes and sayings, New Year quotes 2017, Happy New Year sayings for 2017 hope the New Year brings… Enjoy these New Year quotes, by some famous people, and not-so-famous ones, who all have a way with words.

 

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Inspirational New Year Quotes and Sayings

# “A New Year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.” ~ Anonymous# ”Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

# “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have a new soul!” ~ G. K. Chesterton

# ”Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” ~ Hal Borland

# “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” ~ John Burroughs

# “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

# ”The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

# “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” ~ Hal Borland

# “Here’s to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.” ~ Anonymous

# ”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

# ”And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.” ~ Minnie L. Haskins

Famous New Year Quotes

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# ”Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850# ”Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~ Oprah Winfrey# ”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”# ”Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.” ~ Mark Twain# ”Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ~ Oscar Wilde# ”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 GoodmanFunny New Year Sayings
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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 Vaughn

# ”People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” ~ Author Unknown

# “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

# ”He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.” ~ F.M. Knowles

# “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

Tongue-in-Cheek New Year Quotes and Sayings

# ”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

# ”A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” ~ Author Unknown

# ”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

# ”New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” ~ Jay Leno

# ”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

 

 

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