New Year's Quotes & Toasts

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man.” - Benjamin Franklin

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” - Joey Adams

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.” - Judith Crist

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” - Oscar Wilde

“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.” - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” - Jay Leno

“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