I've never known a person to live to 110 or more,

and then die, to be remarkable for anything else.-Josh Billings

May our lives, like the leaves of the maple,

Grow more beautiful as they fade.

May we say our farewells, when it's time for us to go,

All smiling and unafraid. -Larry E. Johnson

May you die in bed at 95 years,

Shot by a jealous wife(husband)!-Unknown

May you live as long as you want,

May you never want as long as you live.-Unknown

To maturity:

When there's snow on the roof,

there's fire in the furnace.-Unknown

To the old guard, the older we grow,

The more we take and the less we know.

At least the young men tell us so,

But the day will come, when they shall know

Exactly how far a glass can go,

To win the battle, 'gainst age, the foe.

Here's youth....in a glass of wine.

-James Monroe McLean

Here's to you both-a beautiful pair,

On the birthday of your love affair.-Unknown

May you love each other more than yesterday,

but less than tomorrow.-Unknown

Let anniversaries come and let anniversaries go-

but may your happiness continue on forever.-Unknown

May the warmth of our affections

survive the frosts of old age.-Unknown

May the wind be always at your back, The Sun overhead in a clear sky and the one you love by your side.-Unknown

To our coming anniversaries-

may they be outnumbered only by our coming pleasures.-Unknown

Be to your virtues a little kind,

Be to your faults a little blind.-Unknown

Love each other as you would your children,

Unconditionally!-Unknown

We've Holidays and Holy days, and memory days galore;

And when we've toasted every one, I offer just one more.

So let us lift our glasses high, and drink a silent toast-

The day, deep buried in each heart, that each one loves the most.-Unknown

Remember, on any disagreement the husband

is entitled to the last few words...those words are.. Yes dear.-Unknown

Today I have married my best friend.-Unknown

Here's to the bride and the bridegroom,

We'll ask their success in our prayers,

And through life's dark shadows and sunshine

That good luck may always be theirs.-Unknown

There are "three rings" in marriage.

There's the "engagement ring",

There's the "wedding ring"

And there's the "suffer-ring".-Unknown

Love is a flower,

water it every day and enjoy!-Unknown

All rise and raise a glass,

To the land we love and the love we land!-Unknown

May the love you share forever remain

as beautiful as the bride looks today.-Unknown

Never above you.

Never below you. Always by your side.-Unknown

However rare true love is,

true friendship is rarer.-Unknown

May your hearts be open with patience and love.

May your lives be filled with blessings from above.

May you always share the best that life can provide.

As you spend your lifetime together side by side.-Unknown

To say "I Love You" everyday, will guarantee

harmony within your hearts and home.-Unknown

Here to loving, to romance, to us,

May we travel together through time.

We alone count as none, but together we're one,

For our partnership puts love to rhyme.

Here's to true love, may it always be spoken

Here's to true friendship, may it never be broken.-Unknown

Here's to the best years of your life,

The years you spent with another man's wife...

Your Mother, God Bless Her.-Unknown

Ale's a strong wrestler,

Flings all it has met;

And makes the ground slippery,

Even when it's not wet.-Unknown

Give me wine to wash me clean

From the weather-stains of care.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us have wine and women

mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.-Lord Byron

May our wine brighten the mind and strengthen the resolution.-Unknown

When wine enlivens the heart

May friendship surround the table.-Unknown

Fill to him, to the brim!

Round the table let it roll.

The divine says that wine

Cheers the body and the soul.-Unknown

I drink to the health of another,

And the other I drink to is he

In the hope that he drinks to another,

And the other he drinks to is me.-Unknown

Then let us toast John Barleycorn,

Each man a glass in hand

Andy may his great prosperity

Ne'er fail in old Scotland!-Unknown

Wine improves with age,

I like it the older I get.-Unknown

Beer! Beer! Beer!

We students all adore you,

Beer! Beer! Beer!

We love to see you foam;

When we for wine abjure you,

We miss you, we assure you,

For it's only with clear sparkling beer,

That students feel at home.-Unknown

Come sit we by the fireside,

And roundly drink we here,

Till we see our cheeks are dyed

And noses tanned with beer.-Robert Herrick

Here

With my beer

I sit,

While golden moments flit;

Alas!

They pass

Unheeded by;

And as they fly,

I

Being dry,

Sit, idly sipping here

My beer.-George Arnold

Let's drink the liquid of amber so bright;

Let's drink the liquid with foam snowy white;

Let's drink the liquid that brings all good cheer,

Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer.

-Popular 19th Century Toast

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

None so blind as those who will not see.

But I'll wager none so deaf nor blind that he

Sees not nor hears me say come drink this beer.-W. L. Hassoldt

Who'd care to be a bee add sip

Sweet honey from the flower's lip

When he could be a fly and steer

Head first into a can of beer?-Unknown

To the old guard, the older we grow,

The more we take and the less we know.

At least the young men tell us so,

But the day will come, when they shall know

Exactly how far a glass can go,

To win the battle, 'gainst age, the foe.

Here's youth....in a glass of wine.

-James Monroe McLean

Here's champagne to your real friends and real pain to your sham friends.

-Unknown

Here's to champagne, the drink divine,

That makes us forget all our troubles;

It's made of a dollar's worth of wine

And three dollars' worth of bubbles.-Unknown

Oh thrice accursed

Be a champagne thirst,

When the price of beer is all we've got.

-Unknown

Some take their gold

In minted mold,

And some in harps hereafter,

But give me mine

In bubbles fine

And keep the change in laughter.-Oliver Herford

The bubbles winked at me and said,

"You'll miss me, brother when you're dead."- Oliver Herford

Oh Roquefort! We accept thee,

With no disgusting note,

As natures sole apology

For giving us the goat.-W.E.P. French

May you never lie, cheat or drink

But if you must lie, lie in each others arms

And if you must cheat, cheat death

But if you must drink, drink with all of us, because we love you!-Unknown

Times are hard,

And wages are small,

So drink more beer,

And screw them all.-Unknown

Fill with mingled cream and amber,

I will drain that glass again.

Such hilarious visions clamber

Through the chambers of my brain.

Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies

Come to life and fade away;

What care I how time advances?

I am drinking ale today.-Edgar Allan Poe

A toast, and many of them.

Birthdays were never like this, when I had them.-Unknown

Although another year is past

He/She looks no older than the last!-Unknown

Another candle on your cake?

Well, that's no cause to pout.

Be glad you have strength enough,

To blow the damned things out.-Unknown

Another year older? Think this way:

Just another day older than yesterday!-Unknown

God grant you many and happy years,

Till, when the last has crowned you,

The dawn of endless days appears,

And heaven is shining round you!-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happy birthday to you

And many to be,

With friends that are true

As you are to me!-Unknown

Here's to you! No matter how old you are,

You don't look it.-Unknown

Many happy returns of the day of you birth:

Many blessings to brighten your pathway on earth;

Many friendships to cheer and provoke you to mirth:

Many feastings and frolics to add to your girth.-Robert H. Lord

May you live to be a hundred years with on extra year to repent.

-Irish

Time marches on!

Now tell the truth-

Where did you find

The fountain of youth?-Unknown

To wish you joy on your birthday

And all the whole year through,

For all the best that life can hold

Is none too good for you.-Unknown

To your birthday, glass held high,

Glad it's you that's older-not I.-Unknown

May those who love us love us;

And those that don't love us,

May God turn their hearts;

And if He doesn't turn their hearts,

May he turn their ankles,

So we'll know them by their limping.-Unknown

Here's to short shoes and long corns to our enemies.

-Irish

May a band of gypsies camp in your belly and

Train bears to dance on your liver.-Yiddish

May his cradle ne'er rock, may his box have no lock,

May his wife have no frock for to cover her back,

May his cock never crow, may his bellows ne'er blow

And his pipe and his pot, may he ever more lack.

-Irish "To an Informer."

May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt,

That a ghost may catch him in the dark of the night,

May his hen never lay, may his ass never bray,

And his goat fly away like an old paper kite.

-Irish

May his spade never dig.

May his sow never pig.

May each hair in his wig, be well thrashed with a flail.

May his door never latch

May his turkeys not hatch.

May the rats eat his mail.

May every old fairy from Cork to Dunleary dip him

snug and airy in river or lake where the eel and

the trout may dine on the snout of the monster

that murdered Nell Flaherty's Drake.

-One verse of Irish cursing song, "Nell Flaherty's Drake."

May she marry a ghost, and bear him a kitten, and may

the high king of glory permit it to get the mange.

-Irish

May the devil cut the toes off all our foes,

that we may know them by their limping.

-Irish

May the devil make a ladder of your backbone

while he is picking apples in the garden of hell.

-Irish

May you grow so rotten that goats, skunks, and pigs refuse to be near you.

-Yiddish

May you never develop stomach trouble from too rich a diet.

-Yiddish

May you turn into a sparrow and owe your existence to the droppings of a horse.

-Yiddish

;dt>That all your teeth should fall out-

but one should remain for a toothache.

-Yiddish

Pieces should fall off you.

-Yiddish

Here's to you old friend, may you live a thousand years,

Just to sort of cheer things up, in this vale of human tears;

And may I live a thousand too-a thousand-less one day,

Because I wouldn't want to be on earth, and hear you'd passed away.

-Author Unknown

May all your troubles be little ones.

-Unknown

To my friends:

Friends we are today,

And friends we'll always be;

For I am wise to you,

And you can see through me.-Unknown

May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances,

And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares.-Unknown

May the most you ever wish for

Be the least you ever receive.-Unknown

May you live a long, happy life,

And may my voice be the last one you hear.-Unknown

May you live as long as you want to,

And want to as long as you live.-Unknown

Here's to thee, my honest friend,

Wishing these hard times to mend.-Unknown

A speedy calm to the storms of life.

-Unknown

There are good ships, and there are wood ships,

The ships that sail the sea.

But the best ships, are friendships,

And may they always be.-Unknown

Here's to you, here's to me...

May we never disagree. But if we do, the hell with you...

Here's to me!-Unknown

May you live forever

And may I never die.-Unknown

May the best day of your past

be the worst day in your future.-Unknown

May the roof above us never fall in

And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.-Unknown

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry.

-Ecclesiastes 10:19

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

1 Timothy 5:23

Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.

-Ecclesiastes 9:7

Forsake not an old friend,

for the new is not comparable to him.

A new friend is as new wine;

when it is old,

Thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

-Ecclesiastes 9:10

Give...wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

-Proverbs 31:6

The best wine...that goeth down sweetly,

causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.-Song of Solomon 7:9

Wine maketh glad the heart of man.

-Psalms 104:15

Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful,

and not to make men drunk.

Wine drunk with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart.

-Ecclesiastes 31:35-36

Wine, which cheereth God and man.

-Judges 9:13

A little whiskey now and then

Is relished by the best of men;

It surely drives away dull care,

And makes ace high look like two pair.

-Unknown

Gentlemen, the Queen!

She gazed at us serene,

She filled his flush,

Amidst the hush-

And gathered in the green.

-Unknown

Camp life is just one canned thing after another.

-Unknown

Not the laurel-but the race,

Not the quarry-but the chase;

Not the dice-but the play

May I, Lord, enjoy always!

-Unknown

Poker-like a glass of beer, you draw to fill.

-Unknown

The hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the earth-

But the hand that holds four aces!

Bet on it for all you're worth.

-Unknown

There was a man in our town,

And he was wondrous wise.

He jumped into a tournament

And came out with a prize.

And when he saw the cup he'd won,

With all his might and main,

He jumped into ten entry lists

But never won again.

-Unknown

"A wet night maketh a dry morning,"

Quoth Hendyng, "Rede ye right;

And the cure most fair is the self-same hair

Of the dog that gave the bite."

-Punderson

Here's to the good time I must have had!

-Unknown

I wish that my room had a floor

I don't care so much for a door

But this walking around

Without touching the ground

Is getting to be quite a bore.

-Galett Burgess

If you'd know when you've enough

Of the punch and the claret cup

It's time you quit the blessed stuff

When you fall down and can't get up.

-Unknown

Lord how my head aches! What a head have I!

It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.

-Shakespeare

Not drunk is he who from the floor

Can rise again and drink some more;

But drunk is he who prostrate lies,

And can neither drink nor rise.

-Eugene Field

See the wine in the bowl, how it sparkles tonight.

Tell us what can compete with that red sea of light

Which breathes forth a perfume that deadens all sorrow

And leaves us blessed now, with a headache tomorrow?

-Dr. Doran

Sing a song of sick gents,

Pockets full of rye,

Four and twenty highballs,

We wish that we might die.

-Unknown

The cocktail is a pleasant drink,

It's mild and harmless, I don't think!

When you've had one, you call for two,

And then you don't care what you do!

Last night I hoisted twenty-three

Of those arrangements into me;

My wealth increased, I swelled with pride;

I was pickled, primed, and ossified.

R-e-m-o-r-s-e!

Those dry martinis were too much for me.

Last night at twelve I felt immense;

To day I feel like thirty cents.

At four I sought my whirling bed,

At eight I woke with such a head

it is no time for mirth or laughter-

The cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

-George Ade

A Merry Christmas this December, to a lot of folks I don't remember.

-Franklin P. Adams

A Christmas wish-

May you never forget

What is worth remembering

or remember

what is best forgotten

-Irish

Apple pie and Simon Beer,

Christmas comes but once a year.

-Old Southern Saying

At Christmas play and make good cheer

For Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Turner

Be merry all, be merry all,

With holly dress the festive hall,

Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,

To welcome Merry Christmas.

-Unknown

Here's to the holly with its bright red berry.

Here's to Christmas, let's make it merry.

-Unknown

Here's to the day of good will, cold weather,

and warm hearts.

-Unknown

Here's wishing you more happiness

Than all my words can tell,

Not just alone for Christmas

But for all the year as well.

-Unknown

Here's to us all!

God bless us every one!

-Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol."

-Tiny Tim's Toast

Holly and ivy hanging up

And something wet in every cup.

-Irish

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time;

a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time;

a time when men and women seem by one consent to open their hearts freely;

and so I say "God bless Christmas."

-Charles Dickens

I know I've wished you this before

But every year I wish it more.

A Merry Christmas.

-Unknown

I wish you a Merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

A pocket full of money

And a cellar full of beer!

-Unknown

Joy to the world-

and especially to you.

-Unknown

May the Virgin and her Child lift your latch on Christmas night.

-Irish This refers to the old Irish custom

of leaving the door unbolted and a candle in the window

for Mary on her way to Bethlehem.

May you be contented as Christmas finds you all the year round.

-Irish

May you be poor in misfortune this Christmas

and rich in blessings

slow to make enemies

quick to make friends

and rich or poor, slow or quick,

as happy as the New Year is long.

-Irish

May you be the first house in the parish to welcome St. Nicholas.

-Irish

May you never be without a drop at Christmas.

-Irish

May your corn stand high as yourself, your fields grow

bigger with rain, and the mare know its own way home

on Christmas Night.

-Irish

May your sheep all have lambs

but not on Christmas night.

-Irish

Now thrice welcome Christmas

Which brings us good cheer,

Minced pies and plum porridge.

-Unknown

Peace and plenty for many a Christmas to come.

-Irish

The season when fowl murder promotes peace and good will.

-Unknown

Then let us be merry and taste the good cheer,

And remember old Christmas but comes once a year.

-From a Christmas Carol

'Twas the month after Christmas,

And Santa had flit;

Came there tidings for father

Which read: "Please remit."

-Unknown

May you have warmth in your igloo,

Oil in your lamp

And peace in your heart.

-Inuit

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