Toasts
More Toasts
Well if you didn't get enough toasts from the first page,
here are some more! My page size is limited and I had a lot of
info to share. I have tried to make them as user friendly as I can.
Hope you enjoy, and can use some of them! Later, DaBoozer!
Husbands, Wives, men and women
"There's two theories to arguing with a woman.
Neither one works."-Unknown
Women have many faults. Men have only two.
Everything they say, and everything they do.-Irish
Irish Toasts
A generation of children of the children of your children.
-Irish
Grandchildren are gifts of God.
It is God's way....Of compensating us for growing old.-Irish
May He/She grow to twice as tall as yourself and half as wise.
-Irish
May you live to be a hundred years with on extra year to repent.
-Irish
A Christmas wish-
May you never forget
what is worth remembering
or remember
what is best forgotten.
-Irish
May the grass grow long on the road to Hell
for want of use.-Irish
Here's health to your enemies' enemies!
-Irish
May we be alive at the same time next year.
(In Irish, "Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo aris.)-Irish
May you...
Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no-one is watching,
screw like it's being filmed,
and drink like a true Irishman.-Irish
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.-Irish
Ireland, sir, for good or evil,
No other place under Heaven.
And no man can touch its sod
Or breathe its air without becoming
Better or worse.
-Irish
Now sweetly lies old Ireland
Emerald green beyond the foam,
Awakening sweet memories,
Calling the heart back home.-Irish
Ireland, it’s the one place on earth
That heaven has kissed
With melody, mirth,
And meadow and mist.-Irish
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish...
You’re lucky enough!-Irish
Where ever you go,
May the luck of the Irish be there with you.-Irish
May your heart be warm and happy
With the lilt of Irish laughter
Every day in every way
And forever and ever after.-Irish
May the luck of the Irish possess you.
May the devil fly off with your worries.
May God bless you forever and ever.
-Irish
May the luck of the Irish
Lead to happiest heights And the highway you travel
Be lined with green lights.
-Irish
An Irishman is never drunk as long as
He can hold onto one blade of grass and not
Fall off the face of the earth.
-Irish
An Irish method for tackling problems:
There comes a time when you must take the bull
By the tail and face the situation squarely.
-Irish
In order to find his equal,
an Irishman is forced to talk to God.-Irish
What is Irish diplomacy?
It’s the ability to tell a man to go to hell,
So that he will look forward to making the trip.
-Irish
An old Irish recipe for longevity:
Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy.
Leave the table thirsty.
-Irish
The reason the Irish are always fighting each other
Is they have no other worthy opponents.-Irish
Here's to Eileen O'Hara
For her life held no terror
Born a virgin
Died a virgin
No runs, no hits, no errors
-Irish
God invented whiskey
so the Irish wouldn't rule the world.-Irish
"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow
then to spend tonight like there's no money."-P.J. O'Rourke
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
the foresight to know where you're going
and the insight to know when you're going too far.
-Irish
Here's to you, as good as you are.
Here's to me as bad as I am.
As good as you are and as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are, as bad as I am.-Irish
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and a smooth road all the way to your door.
-Irish
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
The sun shine warm upon your face,
The rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.-Irish
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
Slow to make enemies,
Quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
-Irish
May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend.
-Irish
St. Patrick was a gentleman
Who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health--
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good St. Patrick
And see all those snakes again.-Irish
May the devil make a ladder of your backbone
While he picks apples in the garden of hell.-Irish
Holly and ivy hanging up, something wet in every cup.
-Irish
Kids and Children
A baby will make love stronger,
Days shorter, Nights longer,
bankroll smaller, home happier,
clothes shabbier, the past forgotten,
and the future worth living for.
-Unknown
A new life begun,
Like father, like son.-Unknown
Like one, like the other,
Like daughter, like mother.-Unknown
Father of fathers, make me one,
A fit example for a son.
A lovely being scarcely formed or molded,
A rose with all it's sweetest leaves yet folded.-Lord Byron
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
-Charles Dickens from Nicholas Nickleby
Here's to baby-man to be-
May he be as fine as thee.-Unknown
Here's to baby-woman to be-
May she be as sweet as thee.-Unknown
May your children have wealthy parents.
-Unknown
"The stork has brought a little peach"
The nurse said with an air.
"I'm mighty glad," the father said,
"He didn't bring a pear."-Unknown
A generation of children of the children of your children.
-Irish
Grandchildren are gifts of God.
It is God's way....Of compensating us for growing old.-Irish
May He/She grow to twice as tall as yourself and half as wise.
-Irish
Love, Luck and Lust
To the Great Unknown-who is waiting to do us a favor.
-Unknown
Here's to abstinence,
as long as it is practiced in moderation!-Unknown
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
-Groucho Marx
Here's to all those that I love.
Here's to all those that love me.
And here's to all those that love those that I love,
And all those that love those that love me.-Unknown
To temperance . . . in moderation.
-Lem Motlow
It gives me great pleasure.
-George Bernard Shaw offered the above toast
during a fashionable English dinner
party at which it was the custom of the host
to select both the giver and the subject
of the toast. In an apparent attempt to
tongue-tie the great literary lion, the host
selected the subject of sex.( an unmentionable
in society at the turn of the century).
Shaw responded simply and to the point.
Here's to the lady dressed in black,
Once she walks by she never looks back,
And when she kisses, oh how sweet,
She makes things stand that never had feet.-Unknown
Here's to the bee that stung the bull and started the bull a'bucking.
Here's to the bee that stung Adam and Eve and started the world a'____ing.
Here's to it to them that do it,
Damn the man that can't do it!
As to those who won't do it , they should be tied to it and made to do it.
Birds do it and fly, bees do it and die.
Kings and queens do it and sigh.
But I can't do it and I'll tell you why:
Because I've promised to be true.
But I'll tell you what I will do,
I'll lie still while you do it.-Unknown
Miscellaneous
Here's a toast to poverty;
It sticks by us when our friends forsake us.-Unknown
May those who live truly be always believed,
And those who deceive us be always deceived.-Unknown
May bad fortune follow you all your days
And never catch up with you.-Unknown
If the world is going wrong,
Forget it!
Sorrow never lingers long-
Forget it!
If your neighbor bears ill will,
If your conscience won't be still,
If you owe an ancient bill,
Forget it!-Unknown
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and it gives you the laugh anyway.-Unknown
Let us make our glasses kiss;
Let us quench the sorrow-cinders.-Ralph Waldo Emerson 1851
May poverty always be a day's march behind us.
-Unknown
May the sunshine of comfort dispel the clouds of despair.
-Unknown
May we ever be able to part with our troubles to advantage.
-Unknown
Remember the poor-it costs nothing.
-Josh Billings
Wine nourishes, refreshes and cheers.
Wine is the foremost of all medicines.....
Wherever wine is lacking,
Medicines become necessary.-The Talmud
Here's to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend
The first beautiful,
The second full,
The last ever faithful.-Unknown
Party Toasts
Here's to me in my sober mood,
When I ramble, sit, and think.
Here's to me in my drunken mood,
When I gamble, sin, and drink.
And when my days are over,
And from this world I pass,
I hope they bury me upside down,
So the world can kiss my ass!-Unknown
Here's to fine wine, women, and song
And here's to workdays that aren't too long
Here's to shoes that always fit
And here's to you, you silly @#$!-Unknown
Who is a friend but someone to toast,
Someone to gibe, someone to roast.
My friends are the best friends
Loyal, willing and able
Now let's get to drinking
Glasses off the table!!-Unknown
Here's to our guest--
Don't let him rest.
But keep his elbow bending.
'Tis time to drink--
Full time to think
Tomorrow--when you're mending.-Unknown
Prohibition Toasts
A dry heaven, and a wet hell;
So it is prohibitors tell;
But who would to a desert go,
When it's nice and wet and soggy down below?
-Unknown
Drink a bottle to us in London
And a stein in old Berlin,
Some rare champagne
If you get to Spain
Is nice to remember us in;
You may drink to our health in Paris
With a flagon of old Cognac,
But if you want the toast
That'll please us the most
Just bring us a bottle back.
-Unknown
Forty miles from whiskey,
And sixty miles from gin,
I'm leaving this damn country,
For to live a life of sin.
-Unknown
Four and twenty Yankees,
feeling very dry,
Went across the border
to get a drink of rye,
When the rye was opened,
the yanks began to sing
God bless America,
But God save the King!
-Toast from Canada during prohibition
God bless America and damn Prohibition.
-Unknown
Here's to Carry Nation,
Of antidrink renown,
Who, thought against libation,
Hit ev'ry bar in town!
-Unknown
Here's to Prohibition: May it continue to reduce
the number of men who think they can sing.
-Unknown
Here's to Prohibition,
The devil take it!
They've stolen our wine,
So now we make it.
-Unknown
Here's to the "noble experiment's" ignoble death!
-Unknown
Liberty-May it ever be enjoyed by Americans
without prohibition.
-Unknown
May you get through the passport office without detention,
through Europe with dissension,
and through customs without detection.
-Unknown
Mother makes brandy from cherries
Pop distills whiskey and gin;
Sister sells wine from the grapes on our vine
Good grief how the money rolls in.
-Unknown
Ship me somewhere east of Suez,
where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no ten commandments
an' a man can raise a thirst.
-Rudy kipling
Thirsty days hath September,
April June and November;
April, June and December;
All the rest are thirsty too
Except for him who hath home brew.
-Unknown
To my bootlegger; Here's hoping he
never has to drink any of his own.
-Unknown
When men were free as a matter of course,
Millions of dollars in revenue came;
While now millions go, a law to enforce,
And all but the bootleggers lose at the game.
-Unknown
Wise guys
Buy supplies;
Dry guys
Likewise.
-Unknown
Shakespear's Toasts
I stabbed my arm to drink her health,
The more fool I, the more fool I.
-From "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare
The rankest compound of villainous smell
That ever offended nostril.
-Shakespeare "on Limburger Cheese"
Like little body with a mighty heart.
-Shakespeare, "King Henry v, Act 11."
Unquiet meals make ill digestion’s.
-Shakespeare "The Comedy of Errors, Act V."
Heaven give thee many, many merry days.
-Shakespeare
May you be merry and lack nothing.
-Shakespeare
See your guests approach;
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
-Shakespeare "The Winter's Tale, Act 1V."
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures, kings.
-Shakespeare "King Richard 111, Act V."
Some wine, ho!
And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink;
A soldier's a man,
A life's but a span;
Why then, let a soldier drink.
-Shakespeare "Othello, Act 111."
Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I!
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
-Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"
And do as adversaries do in law-
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
-Shakespeare "The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1."
A hit, a very palpable hit.
-Shakespeare "Hamlet, Act V."
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
-Portia's speech,
-Shakespear "The Merchant of Venice, Act 14 Scene 1."
Look down you gods,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown.-Shakespeare
Tongue Twister Toasts
Here's a toast to all those that we love,
Here's a toast to all those that love us,
Here's a toast to all those that love them
that love those that love them that love those that love us.
-Unknown
Here's a toast to you and yours who have done such things
for us and ours;
and when we and ours have it in our powers to do for you
and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours,
then we and ours will do for you and yours what you
and yours have done for ours.
-Unknown
Then here's to we four!
But if you two don't love we two
As we two love you two,
Then here's to we two and no more.
-Unknown
Here's to you, here’s two of you,
And two to you two, too, and to you two, too, here's two.
-Unknown
Tho' a kiss be a-miss,
She who misses the kisses
As Miss without kiss
May miss being a Mrs.
And he who, a-miss,
Thinks both Missed and Kisses
Will miss Miss and Kiss
And the kisses of Mrs.
-Unknown
Updated 1/5/99
Email: Kevin White