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“Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the
world.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Englishman's toast at a banquet in England
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“Our country, however bounded.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes 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.”
King Arthur Quotes 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.”
Robert Burns Quotes 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.”
Samuel Clarke Bushnell Quotes 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.”
Samuel Clarke Bushnell Quotes 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!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes 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.”
John Daly Quotes 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!"”
Charles Dibdin Quotes 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.”
Bartholomew Dowling Quotes Source: Revelry in India
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“And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.”
John Dyer Quotes 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.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes 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).”
Oliver Herford Quotes 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."”
Oliver Herford Quotes 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.”
Richard Hovey Quotes 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.”
Washington Irving Quotes Source: Rip Van Winkle, (from The Sketch Book) as used by Joseph Jefferson
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“Our federal Union: it must be preserved.”
Andrew Jackson Quotes 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.”
Frederick Scheetz Jones Quotes 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.”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: The Forest--To Celia
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“To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Metamorphosed Gipsies--Third Song
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