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:
If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.