Old Year Quotes

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Let each new year find you a better person.

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

This bright new year is given me

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

I stood on a tower in the wet,
And New Year and Old Year met,
And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said,
"O years,
that meet in tears,
Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring,
Wanderers coming and going,
Matter enough for deploring,
But aught that is worth the knowing?