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Old Year Quotes

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Aleister Crowley
New Year, Years, Old Year
Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering
New Year, Reality, Old Year

Let each new year find you a better person.

Benjamin Franklin
New Year, Years, Old Year

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

Hartley Coleridge
New Year, Years, Old Year
Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
New Year, Holiday, Old Year

This bright new year is given me

William Arthur Ward
New Year, Old Year, Zest
William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

Madeleine L'Engle
New Year, Years, Old Year
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.5, Open Road Media

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.

Charles Fort
Humility, Years, Old Year
Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.49, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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.

Robert W. Service
Years, Old Year, Progress
ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
New Year, Years, Old Year
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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