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I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.


Andre Gide

Yeah ;)

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.




Oscar Wilde

A Year's Longing

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

Say What?!?

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas

Eternity

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.


Thomas Mann

A New Year's Thought a Day

For 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.

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"