The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.