Short New Year Quotes

New Year is a festive occasion that is associated with a joyous spirit and grand merriment. People usher in the New Year with sheer optimism and great faith, to mark a fresh beginning in their lives. Wishes assume significant importance on any festival, which holds true for New Year as well. People want to send the most soulful and expressive wishes to their loved ones, to convey how much they care. Below given are some of the best short quotations for wishing New Year in a meaningful way. Read on to take your pick.

Short Quotes For New Year

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
- Hartley Coleridge

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
- Edward Payson Powell

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

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

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

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

Each age has deemed the new-born year, the fittest time for festal cheer.
- Walter Scott

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
T.S. Eliot's

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
- William Thomas

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
- Charles Dickens

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
- Walter Scott

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
- Hal Borland