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:
When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn.