“Hope, smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“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

“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

“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

“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.”
– Vern McLellan

“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”
– John Selden