it wouldn't be new year's if i didn't have regrets.  ~william thomas

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

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

we meet today
to thank thee for the era done,
and thee for the opening one.
~john greenleaf whittier

one resolution i have made, and try always to keep, is this:  to rise above the little things.  ~john burroughs

of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year.  ~charles lamb

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