New Year quotes, New Year Comments, New Year quotations

It's that time of the year again. With Christmas over, the New Year (2009) is but a few days away. And just like during Christmas, the occasion calls for greetings, comments and messages to loved ones and friends. For the creative among us, they can whip up a meaningful or funny message in a flash. But for others, they usually look for New Year quotes or New Year quotations by other people (famous or otherwise) for our greetings. Some look for funny quotes, others want the inspiring kind and some prefer the more profound. Here are some New Year quotes/New Year quotations, messages and greetings I found online that may be of help.

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

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? by John Dos Passos, 1917

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. by Thomas Mann

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." by Oprah Winfrey

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. by W.H. Auden

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. by P.J. O'Rourke

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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. by Martin Luther

I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. by Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

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. by G.K. Chesterton

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. by Mark Twain

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. by Jay Leno

May this NEW YEAR be a song of THANKSGIVING, an offering of PRAISE, a celebration of GOD’S LOVE in HIS Amazing GRACE!
A blessed & joyous 2008 to you and your family!

“How do you measure a year? In daylights, sunsets, midnights, cups of coffee… in laughter & strife. Remember the love. Measure your life in SEASONS OF LOVE.” I hope you have a lot of these seasons to look back at in 2008 & wishing you many more of them in 2009. A happy new year!