“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” Mark Twain
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” Oscar Wilde
“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle” Eric Zorn
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go” Brooks Atkinson
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven” Ecclesiastes
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. T.S. Eliot
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. Andre Gide
1906
Waiting For Charlemagne 