A collection of toasts

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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 hoping that you live forever And mine is the last voice you hear. — Willard Scott	May you live all the years of your life. — Jonathan Swift	May you live as long as you want And may you never want as long as you live. — Unknown
When wine enlivens the heart May friendship surround the table. — Unknown	May our wine brighten the mind and strengthen the resolution. — 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
May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances, And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares. — Unknown	Wine improves with age I like it the older I get. — 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 bad fortune follow you all your days And never catch up with you. — Unknown	To temperance . . . in moderation. — Lem Motlow	Give me wine to wash me clean From the weather-stains of care. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's looking at you, kid. — Humphrey Bogart toasting Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca	Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron	To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. — Mark Twain
I drink to your charm, your beauty and your brains — Which gives you a rough idea of how hard up I am for a drink. — Groucho Marx	A toast, to our ancestors that brought us this far; may their efforts not be wasted and may we do as well by our descendants.  A toast made December 31, 1999 — Brannock	May the people who dance on your grave get cramps in their legs. — from the book, The Joys of Yiddish

One of the oldest toasts, and most well-known to students of "lingua latina" and the classics, was missing. It's more of a song, really, but a toast nonetheless. I learned this "toast" and the tune that goes with it from my Latin teacher in high school, back in the days when Latin was often taught in schools. The text is ancient, and the tune well-known – Brahms uses it in full at the close of the Academic Overture, as it was apparently well-known in the German university towns. Perhaps you can find a better translation. But on the whole, I like what it says.— The Wine Specialist

Whilst serving with the Royal Navy the following toasts were routinely used on the appropriate day whilst dining at sea in the Officers' Wardroom (mess). It is traditional for the youngest Officer present to make the toast — a very good reason to learn them!

Kilde: www.intowine.com, Opdateret den 31. oktober 2006