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New Year Quotes – Funny and Inspirational New Year's Resolutions Quotes and Sayings. (Jean Scheijen Photo)

The new year is a time for new beginnings, change and hope. And many partake in New Year’s goal setting – resolutions to lose weight, exercise more frequently, quit smoking, stop procrastinating, stop drinking and resolutions to spend more time with family and/or friends.

New Year’s resolutions are often over-ambitious. This means that goals for the new year are notoriously difficult to accomplish and often abandoned. These qualities make New Year’s resolutions a frequent topic of discussion during the holiday season – and this means plenty of quotes about New Year’s resolutions, both cynical and encouraging.

So today’s quotes of the day are both humorous and a bit inspiring quotations – they’re New Year quotes about resolutions and goals.

“New Year’s Day – Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”    ~Mark Twain

“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”    ~John Selden

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”    ~Oscar Wilde

“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.”    ~Unknown

“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 on January the second.”    ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’ Diary

Readers who enjoyed these New Year’s resolution quotes may also want to check out Inspirational Quotes About a New Year, along with The Great Life Quotes and Saying’s site’s Funny New Year Quotes and Sayings.

Quotes of the Day - Funny New Year's Quotes (Agata Urbaniak Photo)

The new year is a time for change and fresh beginnings. There are a wide array of funny New Year’s quotes that poke fun at New Year’s resolutions, the holidays, holiday diets, and New Year’s Eve parties.

Today’s quotes of the day are funny New Year’s quotes and sayings – ring in the new year with humor! These quotes about the new year are great for a homemade greeting card, a scrapbook page with photos from a New Year’s Eve party or you can add a funny New Year’s quote to the family Christmas card!

“New Year’s Day – Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” ~Mark Twain

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ~Bill Vaughn

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” ~G.K. Chesterton

“A dog’s New Year’s Resolution – I will not chase that stick unless I actually see it leave his hand!” ~Unknown

“New Year’s Eve – Where auld acquaintance be forgot…Unless, of course, those tests come back positive!” ~Jay Leno

Readers who enjoyed these funny quotes about New Year’s may also enjoy New Year’s Quotations – Quotes About New Year’s Resolutions, along with Inspirational Quotes About a New Year.