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- New Year's Day is January 1
- Every year a crystal ball drops at midnight in Times Square
- The Rose Bowl is played on New Year's Day
- Chinese New Year falls between 1/21 and 2/20
- Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year
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The New Year is a time for change and resolution, resulting in speeches and toasts. For an abundance of quotes from speeches past, or quotes to add wisdom, comedy and resonance to your own toasts, check out the links on this page.
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Resolution Quotes
"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits."—Author UnknownNew Year's Festival: New Year's Quotations"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."—Oscar WildeNew Year's Festival: New Year's Quotations
"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."'—Mark TwainNew Year's Festival: New Year's Quotations
Comedic New Year's Quotes
"Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution."—Jay LenoAbout.com: Funny New Year's Quotes"From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining."—Leonard BernsteinAbout.com: Funny New Year's Quotes
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New Year Quotes Questions
What should I do for New Years Eve? Thanks. 8 AnswersI recommend going somewhere that has a tv and watch the ball drop. read more
Starbucks open on New Years Day? 4 AnswersAll standalone Starbucks shops will be open. Kiosk locations and express style Starbucks stores, for example inside an office building or in a grocery store are... read more
Any unique plans for the new year? 4 AnswersI am a relatively busy musician (when not saving computers from doom) and have performed on New Years Eve everywhere from crappy casino boats to Busan, S. Korea... read more -
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Funny New Year's Quotes
- Poem of Quotes New Year's Quotes
- "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." ~ Bill Vaughn
- "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." ~ Bill Vaughn
- "The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." ~ P.J. O'Rourke
- "Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution." ~ Jay Leno
- "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." ~ Anonymous
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Inspirational New Year's Quotes
- New Year's Festival: New Year's Quotations
- "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." ~ Benjamin Franklin
- "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." ~ Hal Borland
- "Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right."~ Oprah Winfrey
- "Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
- "Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth." ~ Martin Luther
- "A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year." ~ Edgar Guest
- "We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." ~ Ellen Goodman
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New Year's Resolution Quotes
- New Year's Festival: New Year's Quotations
- "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." ~ Author Unknown
- "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." ~ Joey Adams
- "He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool." ~ F.M. Knowles
- "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." ~ James Agate
- "New year, same goal." ~ Joe King
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