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:
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?”
“Time? Why the present, of course.”