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:
I've found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you're supposed to be
And time can heal, but this won’t
So if you’re coming my way, just don’t
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime
Out of Space—out of Time.
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound,
And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.