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Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the
world.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Frenchman's toast at a banquet in England
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Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations
of the world.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Englishman's toast at a banquet in England
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Our country, however bounded.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: toast founded on the speech of Winthrop
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Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow--
The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?
To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--
Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
Source: Impromptu Lines on July Fourth
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Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame!
O! merry be their Dole;
Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,
And fill the tawny bowl.
Author: King Arthur
Source: Waes-Hael
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Some hae meat, and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Selkirk Grace, as often attributed to him, but probably not his
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I come from good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where Cabots speak only to Lowells,
And the Lowells speak only to God.
Author: Samuel Clarke Bushnell
Source: one rendering of his toast
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I am from Massachusetts,
The land of the sacred cod,
There the Adamses snub the Abootts
And the Cabots walk with God.
Author: Samuel Clarke Bushnell
Source: Toast at the Harvard Alumni dinner at Waterbury, one rendering of his toast
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My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea:
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's a double health to thee!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: to Thomas Moore
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Weren't the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
'Tis to thee that I would drink.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: To Thomas Moore
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Drink to her that each loves best,
And if you nurse a flame
That's told but to her mutual breast,
We will not ask her name.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: A Toast
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Here's to the red of it,
There's not a thread of it,
No, not a shred of it,
In all the spread of it,
From foot to head,
Not heroes bled for it,
Faced steel and lead for it,
Precious blood shed for it,
Bathing in red.
Author: John Daly
Source: A Toast to the Flag
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But the standing toast that pleased me most
Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,
And the lass that loves a sailor!"
Author: Charles Dibdin
Source: The Standing Toast, from the comic opera, "The Round Robin", produced June 21, 1811
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Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
'Tis all we have left to prize.
A cup to the dead already,--
Hurrah for the next that dies.
Author: Bartholomew Dowling
Source: Revelry in India
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And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.
Author: John Dyer
Source: From a Toast published during the Reign of Queen Anne
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America,
who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they
obeyed.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: toast made at the close of a banquet in England (see Englishman's and Frenchman's toasts)
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Here's to old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear sparkling and divine,
Fair H2O, long may you flow,
We think your health (in wine).
Author: Oliver Herford
Source: Toast--Adam's Crystal Ale
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The bubble winked at me, and said,
"You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."
Author: Oliver Herford
Source: Toast--The Bubble Winked
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You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever--
And it may be for a day and a night,
And it well may be forever.
But whether we meet or whether we part,
(For our ways are past our knowing)
A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,
On the ways we all are going!
Here's luck!
For we know not where we are going.
Author: Richard Hovey
Source: At the Crossroads
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Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and
may you all live long and prosper.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: Rip Van Winkle, (from The Sketch Book) as used by Joseph Jefferson
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Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
Author: Andrew Jackson
Source: toast given at the Jefferson Birthday celebration in 1830
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Here's to the town of New Haven,
The home of the truth and the light,
Where God speaks to Jones,
In the very same tones,
That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.
Author: Frederick Scheetz Jones
Source: Reply to Dr. Bushnell's Toast
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Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Forest--Song to Celia
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The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Forest--To Celia
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To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Metamorphosed Gipsies--Third Song
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A glass is good, and a lass is good,
And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;
The world is good and the people are good,
And we're all good fellows together.
Author: John O'Keefe
Source: Sprigs of Laurel (act II, sc. 1)
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May all your labors be in vein.
Author: Old English Saying
Source: Mining Toast in Yorkshire
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The wind that blows, the ship that goes
And the lass the loves a sailor.
Author: Old English Saying
Source: Popular Toast, used in England about 1820
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May your glass be ever full
May the roof over your head be always strong,
And may you be in heaven
Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Author: Old Irish Saying
Source: Irish drinking toast
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There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us.
Author: Old Saying
Source: a toast given in the "Boston Bee"
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Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a health to all those that love them that love those
That love them that love those that love us.
Author: Old Saying
Source: Old Toast
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Here's a health 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 us and ours.
Author: Old Saying
Source: Old Toast
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Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;
But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
I am as good as your are, as bad as I am.
Author: Old Scotch Saying
Source: Old Scotch Toast
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Drink to me with thine eyes alone; or if thou wilt, having put it
to thy lips, fill the cup with kisses, and so give it me.
Author: Philostratus
Source: Epistles (24)
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I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to
my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.
Author: Philostratus
Source: Letters (XXV)
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I fill this cup to one made up
Of loveliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given
A form so fair that, like the air,
'Tis less of earth than heaven.
Author: Edward C. Pinkney
Source: A Health
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Some have meat but cannot eat;
Some could eat but have no meat;
We have meat and can all eat;
Blest, therefore, be God for our meat.
Author: Dr. Plume
Source: The Selkirk Grace, in his manuscripts in a handwriting from about 1650
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May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve
lose a feather.
Author: Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsey
Source: Reminiscences of Scottish Life: A Toast
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I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet,
Wi' a' the honours three.
Author: Henry Scott (Scot) Riddell
Source: Toast to Scotland
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St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he said,
"Whose image never may depart,
Deep graven on this grateful heart,
Till memory be dead."
. . . .
St. Leon paused, as if he would
Not breathe her name in careless mood
Thus lightly to another;
Then bent his noble head, as though
To give the word the reverence due,
And gently said, "My mother!"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Knight's Toast
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Give me the cups,
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at V, ii)
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Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
(Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--
Drink to the lass,
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: School for Scandal (act III, sc. 3, song)
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L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast,
His master, as the rising Sun:
Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,
As the bright moon and much praise won.
The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came,
Gave for his toast his own King Will,
As Joshua the sun of Nun,
Who made both Sun and Moon stand still.
Author: Lord Stair
Source: a metrical version of his toast, from the "Anecdote Library", 1822
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A health to the nut-brown lass,
With the hazel eyes: let it pass.
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As much to the lively grey
'Tis as good i' th' night as day:
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She's a savour to the glass,
And excuse to make it pass.
Author: Sir John Suckling
Source: Goblins (act III)
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May you live all the days of your life.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue II)
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First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who knows his native country best.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Hands All Round
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Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes!
Here's a health to the lad with the blue ones!
Author: William Winter
Source: Blue and Black
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