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Best New Year's jokes 2021: Funniest puns, memes, and one-liners

Best New Year's jokes 2021: Funniest puns, memes, and one-liners

‘Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.’ A bit of Lord Tennyson to start the New Year’s Eve celebrations off with a high-brow tone.

It’ll only get lower from here, though.

As countries around the world already celebrate the start of the New Year, it’s not too long until the UK welcomes in 2021.

To celebrate, we’ve collected a selection of quotes, memes and more.

The best social media memes to celebrate 2021





New Year’s jokes and one-liners


We can’t let this year end: That would be admitting that 2020-won.

My New Year’s resolution is to procrastinate. I’ll start tomorrow.


For those who know they’ll never follow through on their resolutions…

‘Good resolutions are simply cheques 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



Motivational quotes for the New Year


‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.’ Albert Einstein

‘A new heart for a New Year, always!’ Charles Dickens


‘Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.’ Oprah Winfrey

‘Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New Year find you a better man.’ Benjamin Franklin
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