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:
Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
Let us convert this night we are breathing together, to a bright morning.
There has been one constant, as far back as we can understand: The world is always changing.
Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change.
With every change his features play'd,
As aspens show the light and shade.