When the clock strikes twelve on December 31st, people all over the world cheer and wish each other a very Happy New Year. For some, this event is no more than a change of a calendar. For others, the New Year symbolizes the beginning of a better tomorrow. So, if you look forward to a good year ahead, spread happiness with these wonderful New Year wishes.
Irish toastIn the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.
Minnie L. HaskinsAnd I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.
Charles DickensA merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!
Sydney SmithResolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
AnonymousYour Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.
William Makepeace ThackerayCertain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
Aisha ElderwynEvery new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures. This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.
F. M. Knowles, A Cheerful Year BookHe who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
G. K. ChestertonThe object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
John Greenleaf WhittierWe meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one
T. S. EliotFor last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
Emily MillerThen sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow
Martin Luther KingGlory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth
Walter ScottEach age has deemed the new born year
The fittest time for festal cheer
Benjamin FranklinBe always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.
Edgar A. GuestA happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
William Arthur WardThis bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
Ella Wheeler WilcoxWhat can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of a year.
Charles LambOf all sound of all bells, the most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
