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NEW YEAR’S QUOTES

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne."
Click here for full text of the Scottish Poem

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

“This is the last night of an Old Year, and I won't carry ill-blood and quarrellings and disturbances into a New One.....I wonder you an't ashamed of yourself, to carry such practices into a New Year.”
Charles Dickens, 'The Chimes'

“How different the story of the child’s year from the man’s; how much longer it seems; how far apart seem the vacations, and the Christmases, and the New Years!”
John W. Chadwick

“The streets were full of motion, and the shops were decked out gaily. The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents and rejoicings.”
Charles Dickens, 'The Chimes'

“A happy New Year to all the world!  Hallo here!  Whoop!  Hallo!”
Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens, 'A Christmas Carol' (1843)

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
Bill Vaughn

“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.”
Jay Leno, TV host, comedian

“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.”
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