Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

 ––Brooks Atkinson

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

 ––Bill Vaughan

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

The merry year is born / Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

––Hartley Coleridge

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

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out another.

––anonymous

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.

––Lord Tennyson