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:
One a child, one old
almost half a century apart // both
need my hand in this city
We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
So, on beyond Z!
It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know
All there is to be known.
You hope you come up with the odd memorable one. That's the best any of us could hope for.
Never turn to the past unless to enlighten the future. Regrets are useless.