Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of.
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:
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
I’ve climbed up here
holding the hilt of time’s sword
after driving it
into my tender heart.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.