With that insight from English essayist and poet Charles Lamb, let’s consider ten more quotes befitting a new year.
- “You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time” — Charlie Brown, Peanuts
- “We should celebrate every year that we made it through” — Ellen DeGeneres
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life” — Robin Sharma
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves” — William E. Vaughan
- “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man” — Benjamin Franklin
- “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets” — William Thomas
- “Many years ago, I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since” — Dave Beard
- “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all” —Simone Biles
- “Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “8 p.m. is the new midnight” — unknown wit of a certain age who just could have been living where I do
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