Ringing in the new year with a bang! Here are over 200 funny new year sayings to help get your party started. From cheesy one-liners to clever quotes, there’s something for everyone here. So grab some friends and celebrate the start of a new year with a good laugh!
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What Do You Say On New Year’s Eve?
What do you say on New Year’s Eve? Some people might say “Happy New Year!” or ” resolutions for the new year”. But what about those of us who don’t really know what to say? There really isn’t a right and wrong thing to say but if you are looking to share some funny sayings with friends then here are some ideas for things to say on New Year’s Eve!
Funny New Year Sayings
- New Year’s Eve means parties, and kicking the old year to the curb.
- Celebrate with these silly sayings and quotes. Beware, you may find some a bit rude!
- Before I agree to 2023, I need to see some terms & conditions.
- 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
- I can’t wait to control-alt-delete 2022, and start anew.
- Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. — William Shakespeare
- New Year’s Eve is finally here, where we can be drunk in public and no one minds. That’s why it’s the best holiday!
- First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Though I am wishing you a very Happy New Year, remember you still have the same old louse of a spouse!
- Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. — Mason Cooley
- Happy New Year! It is midnight already, and you are getting old – just go to sleep!
- I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. — W. C. Fields
- Let us celebrate this New Year’s Eve in honor of the time we successfully wasted this year.
- If you want an interesting party, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. — Robert Fulghum
- It’s time to make old mistakes in different ways. Hurray! Happy New Year!
- Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
- 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.
- Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. — Barbara Walters
- 9pm is the new midnight.
- Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on. — Hal Borland
- New Year is a time to start afresh, to start things all over again, but you realize things are too complicated and you can’t start. Happy New Year!
- Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. — Jean Paul Richter
- A sparkly new year to start fresh on old bad habits.
- Ring out the old, ring in the new,
- Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- I’m gonna order a pizza five minutes before the new year and when they arrive I will say, “I ordered this a year ago!”
- Just here for the champagne.
- People treat New Year’s like some sort of life-changing event. If your life sucked last year, it’s probably still going to suck tomorrow.
- It’s officially New Year’s Eve. You only have a couple of hours to do all the things you will resolve not to do in the new year.
- May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. — Joey Adams
- A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
- Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Oscar Wilde
- I would lose weight for my New Year’s resolution, but I hate losing.
- He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. — F.M. Knowles
- I’m so excited for the new year. Unfortunately, I don’t have any resolutions to make since I’m already perfect.
- The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. — George William Curtis
- Last year’s resolution was to lose 20 pounds by Christmas. Only 30 pounds to go.
- 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
- My New Year’s resolution is to tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. — Hunar Hali
- The most fun part about making New Year’s resolutions is breaking New Year’s resolutions.
- I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.
- My new year resolution is? Buy more shoes, drink more wine, and don’t worry about the gym. I can do this.
- The only new year resolution most people should make is to make no more resolutions. People really suck at keeping up their resolutions!
- May the New Year bring you the courage to break your resolutions early!
- Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
- This year, I resolve to make no mistakes. LOL!
- New Year’s resolutions are made by those who are imperfect. I was born perfect!
- I usually make resolutions when I am drunk, that way I never remember them.
- I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.
- My New Year’s resolution is to be more positive and less sarcastic. Like I won’t screw that up right away.
- Cheers to another year of resolutions we won’t finish. Happy New Year!
- If it takes me more than 2 days to break my resolutions, I’ve made too many.
- Good luck with your new year’s resolutions.
- To a New Year full of new possibilities, even though I’m sure we’ll just do the same old stuff anyway.
- So excited for you guys to ruin another year of my life. Have a Happy New Year.
- Have some faith in me, this year just like the previous ones – I will be your partner in crime.
- What I hope for this New Year is to give love to my family, and good wishes to all my friends.
- Wish you a kickass New Year!!!
- Thanks for being my partner in crime all through the year. Here’s to a Happy New Year together.
- I promise that this year too, I won’t let you do stupid things alone.
- A good friend always asks about your new year’s resolutions. A great friend encourages you to make none.
- Thank God I have another year to bother you with my annoying questions. Get ready to tolerate my annoyance!
- Sorry for all the annoying behavior I did last year. May you give me another chance to do it again in the new year!
- This is the year to annoy you, be prepared for it will not be easy for you. Anyway, try to have a happy New Year.
- Finally, I have one more year to annoy you and freak the hell out of you. Be prepared to tolerate me. Anyways, happy new year friend!
- Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals? — Ogden Nash
- New Year’s is the time to forget all your fears, drink a few beers, leave behind all your tears!
- Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer. — Walter Scott
- May this upcoming year actually bring change in you – not just all your old habits wrapped in a new package.
- Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin
- If you didn’t have any regrets, then it wouldn’t be a New Year. Have a happy New Year!
- All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! — Edward Payson Powell
- Before I get drunk, dance on the bar, lose my phone, get naked and get arrested, Let me wish you a Happy New Year.
- This bright new year is given me. To live each day with zest. To daily grow and try to be. My highest and my best! — William Arthur
- New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. — Charles Lamb
- Don’t be so worried about what you eat between Christmas and New Year’s. Worry more about what you eat between New Year’s and Christmas.
- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey
- They say the New Year is a blank book, but I have writer’s block.
- Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come. Whispering ‘it will be happier’ — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- It’s a new year, but with the same old problems. Oh, well, at least we’re alive. For now.
- We will open the book called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. — Edith Lovejoy Pierce
- Happy New Year! Spoiler alert – it’s going to feel the same.
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. — G.K. Chesterton
- For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. — T.S. Eliot
- Happy New Year, now go to sleep.
- I hope you start the New Year by leaving your old bad habits and acquiring new bad ones. Happy New Year!
- I’m still the same person I was last year — now I’m just hungover.
- This is a new year. A new beginning. Things will change.
- Dear love, success, money, and happiness. Please can we be good friends in 2023?
- “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
- I haven’t been this excited about a new year since last year.
- “This New Years I was going to make a resolution never to be late again, but I didn’t wake up until January 2nd.” — Melanie White
- 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
- “My New Year’s Resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.” —Nia Vardalos
- “Tonight’s December thirty-first, something is about to burst… Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” —Ogden Nash
- “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” —Anaïs Nin
- If you’re staying up until midnight, see where you can watch the ball drop when the clock strikes 12.
- “New Year’s is just a holiday created by calendar companies who don’t want you reusing last year’s calendar.” —Unknown
- “I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.” —Unknown
- “I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” —Robert Paul
- “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” —Mark Twain
- “Last year’s resolution was to lose 20 pounds by Christmas. Only 30 pounds to go.“ —Anonymous
- “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” —Dave Beard
- “New years are like pages in a book that’s so boring. You always think that the next page will be interesting, but it turns out to be the same every time. Happy New Year!” —Unknown
- “Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!” —Mehmet Murat İldan
- “May this New Year bring you more problems, more tears, and more pains. Don’t get me wrong. I just want you to be a stronger person.” —Unknown
- “So excited for you guys to ruin another year of your life. Have a merry and Happy New Year.” —Unknown
- “8 p.m. is the new midnight!” —Unknown
- My resolution: Stop procrastinating. But, ya know, it’s a holiday. I’ll start next week.
- Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.
- Any excuse to wear sequins.
- But first, champagne.
- No wishing. No hoping. This year, I’m just “doing.”
- All that glitters is…probably part of my outfit.
- New year, same me.
- Have a sparkling new year!
- Devote this year to loving yourself.
- Before I get drunk and get naked, happy New Year!
- New year. Who dis?
- Headed into the new year like…
- Hats on. Masks on. Party’s on. 2023, let’s do this!
- Welcome, 2023! Here’s hoping you can’t be worse than last year.
- Seriously? We saw how 2022 went. Do we really want to do this, again?
- Whatever you do, don’t ask what’s next!
- First rule of 2023: No one talks about 2020-2022.
- I lived through 2022. Please don’t kiss me at midnight.
- A wish for 2023: May the dumpster fire belong to someone else.
- “Every New Year’s I have the same question: ‘How do I get home?’”
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss
- “To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.” — Ben Jonson
- “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever.” — Neil Gaiman
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” — Prince
- “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.” — Billy Crystal
- “Don’t make resolutions without an action plan. The secret to success is right in your hands.” — J. Allen Shaw
- “Most people will passively do exactly what they did last year. Whatever you do, don’t let that person be you.” — Richie Norton
- “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie
- “New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.” — Munia Khan
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Micheal Altshuler
- “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
- “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” — Hillary DePiano
- “In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” — Beyoncé
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma
- “I would quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.” — Unknown
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” — Melody Beattle
- “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” — Henry Moore
- “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” — Charles Kettering
- “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “New Year— a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt
- “The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” — Vern McLellan
- “The funniest part of a new year is making new resolutions. I am pretty sure you have one too. Let me know about your resolution and I’ll try not to laugh as I did in the last year.”
- Happy New Year from someone adorable, handsome, intelligent, and who wants to see you smiling always.
- Don’t ask about my new year’s resolutions because all my past resolutions are yet to be done. Have a blessed new year!
- My new years resolution is 1920 x 1080.
- New years are like restart buttons. You think you can push the button and start things all over again but then realize your life is too messed up to be restarted fresh!
- So excited for you guys to ruin another year of your life. Have a merry and Happy New Year 2023.
- Sorry for all the annoying behavior I did throughout the year. May you give me another chance to do that in the next New Year!
- A new year doesn’t come to change your life. It comes to remind you that one more year has gone and you’re still the same useless moron who thinks he can make his resolutions come true!
- May this new year bring you more money so that you can buy expensive gifts for me. Happy new year!
- I hope you start the New Year as the startup of your old habits. Have the same old beautiful life in a box of New Year!
- A new year with the same old worries and tension. Buckle up, drink some more, and peace out for the rest of the night. Happy New Year.
- If you were born in September, it is better to assume that your parents started their new year successfully.
- May this upcoming year actually bring change in you – not just all your old habits wrapped in a new package! Happy New year, anyways.
- Happy new year! This year may finally realize that real fun in life comes from real people, not from virtual ones. Have a great year!
- If all the heartbreaks and troubles from the last year didn’t make you strong, let me wish one more year full of agony and tears. I really want you to be stronger. Happy new year!
- Though I am wishing you a very happy New Year, but remember you still have the same old husband!
- I hope you make a revolution of losing 20 pounds in the coming year and gain 30 pounds more instead. Wish you a New Year full of positivity!
- Happy new year! How’d it be if instead of bringing happiness, joy, and peace, new year’s brought cash, fame and champagne?
- It’s a new year once again and it’s the same old life you’re living once again. What is there to celebrate?
- Life is short and every new year makes it even shorter. Happy new year! You just waved goodbye to one more year of your short life!
- A new year doesn’t stop the ghosts from your past mistake coming back to haunt you. So, if you think you’re over it, you’re wrong. Happy new year!
- God is kind enough to give you a new year but not so kind to give you a new life. Happy new year 2023!
- May you become smart enough to realize that resolutions don’t come true and wise enough to know that the difference between a new year and an old year is 1-minute past 12 AM.
- All I wish to get drunk and dance with you all night long on this 31st night, Happy New Year!
- Wishing you successful 12 months, Joyful 52 weeks, lovely 365 days, memorable 8760 hours, blessings of 525600 minutes and happiest 31536000 seconds. Happy New Year!
- I cannot believe another year has come for us to ruin, looking forward to doing the same thing all over again. Happy new year!
- Be cool and take part in making New Year’s resolutions- just be super cool and do not make them come true. Happy New Year.
- I hope you finally learn how to put your brain to use this year. I wish you a happy new year!
- The most fun part about making New Year’s resolutions is breaking New Year’s resolutions. Can’t wait to mess up with you.
- I hope this year ends up with your smiling selfie to see on the Facebook posts. Wish you a bright and joyful New Year!
- I saved you from spending a fortune on a New Year’s party – I sent you an invitation for an online party!
- I hope this new year brings you joy and happiness because oh lord you look so ugly when you end up crying. I don’t want to witness that ever again.
- May your trips and tricks work amazing for you in this upcoming year. Stay sane and sober.
- Before I get drunk, dance on the bar, lose my phone, get naked and get arrested, Let me wish you a Happy New Year.
- This Year may your hair and teeth, your face-lift, abs and stocks not fall, may your blood pressure, your cholesterol, white blood count, and mortgage interest not rise. Happy New Year
- Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan, Jennifer Lopez, Amitabh Bachchan and Me. All the stars wish you a very happy new year.
- As the clock strikes twelve, may you have the stamina to wish all of your in-numerous Facebook Friends a Happy New Year.
- This New Year, be at peace with your appearance, you are perfectly in shape – round is a shape in geometry!
- It’s the thing that satisfies your mind, body and soul! Do it on the bed, on a sofa, in the car or anywhere! It’s called Prayer! God bless your naughty mind. Happy new year!
- I wish your dog becomes intelligent to wash muddy legs before running on carpets this year. Happy New Year!
- As you turn a new leaf in your Book of Life with the advent of New Year, here is wishing you the addition of meaningful chapters. Happy New Year 2023!
- My New Year’s resolution is to eat less so that I can be sexier. But whenever I see your fat body, I guess I am already successful with my resolution so that I won’t do it anymore. Happy New Year to you!
- I promise not to drink beer anymore, but can I have a bottle more since it’s not yet the eve? Happy New Year, dear!
- You have so many things to gain this year including success, fame, and wisdom. Don’t just focus on gaining weight instead. Happy new year dear friend!
- I hope you will not spend the first day of the new year sleeping on the couch. May God give you the strength to fight with laziness. Happy new year!
- I wish God give you more money to help the poor and less money to spend on junk foods. Wishing you a healthy and disease-free year!
- Have some faith in me, this year just like the previous ones- I will be your partner in crime.
- Hope you will not be bothered with New Year’s resolutions this year as well. May God bless you, friend.
- Have a tremendous New Year while giving everyone a hard time apart from me. Cheers to that.
- I hope you will finally pay off all the debts you owe to me for making my life miserable. Looking forward to that, best wishes.
- A new year, a new beginning? Naah, who are you lying to, mate? Just try to keep things under control this year. Happy New Year.
- May your year be filled with no mistakes- oh wait! You are a mistake itself. Joking! Have a wonderful time in this festive season.
- I hope I won’t have to do stupid things alone this year, not letting you go this easy. Happy new year, buddy!
- I will quit drinking beer from 2023 new year’s eve but red wine, Russian vodka and champagne are welcome!
- “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
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