Quotations On New Year

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
-- W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet


Then 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. -- Emily Miller



Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
-- Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet


Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
-- Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet