A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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.
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Let each new year find you a better person.
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!