the only way to spend new year's eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel.  otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.  ~w.h. auden

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.  it is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  unless a particular man made new year resolutions, he would make no resolutions.  unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.  ~g.k. chesterton

i think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.  ~henry moore

time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  ~thomas mann

i made no resolutions for the new year.  the habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.  ~anaïs nin

why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time?  i want an interregnum.  the stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like new year's and easter and christmas - but, goodness, why need they do it?  ~john dos passos, 1917

new year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.  ~mark twain

every man regards his own life as the new year's eve of time.  ~jean paul richter