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:
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.