January 1st: Happy New Year

Happy New Year to one and all.

1. 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 Twain
2. 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
3. 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
4. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey
5. The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. Hartley Coleridge
6. The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. Charles Dickens, The Chimes
7. Through a chink in the bedroom curtains my unenthusiastic eye caught an early morning glimpse of the new year: it looked battleship grey - I never liked New Year’s Day anyway. Alec Guinness
8. Now let us welcome the New Year, Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke
9. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. Charles Lamb
10. 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