The only way to spend New Years Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. – W. H. Auden

There are those who try to bottle the old year for safekeeping but at midnight the cork always pops. – Terri Guillemets, “Memories old & new,” 2005

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey (b.1954)

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things. – Author unknown