It gives
me great pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw
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
champagne to our real friends, And real pain to our sham friends. —
Unknown
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
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
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
Let us
have wine and women mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day
after. — Lord Byron
Here's
looking at you, kid. — Humphrey Bogart toasting Ingrid Bergman in
Casablanca
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
Don't
make love by the garden gate - Love is blind - but the neighbors ain't !
As best
man at a wedding dinner I reminded the groom of the advice I had given
him which he chose not to follow and which led him to be in the wedding
– Brent H. Curtis |