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Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. - Eric Zorn

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughn

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.- anonymous

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.  - John Selden 

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

 Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

 An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan