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I like to work on New Year's Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the 'year-end' thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year.
Sep 27, 2025
Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
The journey is the reward
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
A 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.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature
Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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