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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.
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Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on
old habits.
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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.
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The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail
the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
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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.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for
the opening one.
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The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked
thorn.
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We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for
the opening one.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey
long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the
non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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