For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.And to make an end is to make a beginning.T.S.Eliot Each age has deemed the new born year The fittest time for festal cheer Walter Scott Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.Middle age is when you're forced to.Bill Vaughnv 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 No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.It is that from which all date their time,and count upon what is left.It is the nativity of our common Adam.Charles Lamb The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve,when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.P.J.O'Rourke People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year,but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.Author Unknown Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.Let it go,for it was imperfect,and thank God that it can go.Brooks Atkinson We meet today To thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one.John Greenleaf Whittier