Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.
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:
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.
Day follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow.