Let's Revive the Classic Art of Toast. Cheers!

Let's Revive the Classic Art of Toast. Cheers!

      Researched and Compiled by Dr Abe V Rotor

May you live long as you want and never want as long as you live.

The Art of Toast 

A ritual of raising a glass, 

and drinking to express good wishes, 

honor, accolade or celebration;

accompanied with verbal expression -

and etiquette surrounding the occasion.

                           "May you live all the days of your life." - Jonathan Swift

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring happy bells, across the snow; 

The year's going, let him go; 

Ring out the false, ring in the true."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson 

"Here's to our country!  When right to be kept right; 

when wrong to be put right." - Carl Schurz

"To the old, long life and treasure;

To the young, all health and pleasure." 

- Ben Jonson

Here's to Life's blessings: Wife, children and friends!

So live that when your life shall end all men say, "I've lost a friend." 

- Tudor Jenks

Drink to the man who keeps his head. though he loses his heart.

"God grant you many and happy years,

Till, when he last has crowned you,

The dawn of endless days appears,

And heaven is shining 'round you."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The law: It has honored us, may we honor it."

- Daniel Webster

"Here's to matrimony - the high seas for which no compass

has yet been invented." H. Heine

Here's our native land!  May we live for it and die in it.

"To every lovely lady bright,

 I wish a gallant faithful knight;

To every faithful lover, too, 

 I wish a trusting lady, true."            

     - Sir Walter Scott

Here's to woman - once our superior, now our equal.

"Here's to Friendship - Love without his wings."

- Lord Byron 

Here is to Love - the only fire against which there is no insurance. 

"Here's to ______________

Her features,

Seem to be drawn by love's own hand; 

by love himself in love."

- John Dryden

"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried

grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel."

- William Shakespeare

Here is to Home - the golden setting in  which the highest jewel is "Mother."

Reference and acknowledgement:

 Speaker's Encyclopedia of Humor

 - Jacob M Braude; Internet photos.