"May our lives, like the leaves of the maple, grow
more beautiful as they fade.
May we say our farewells, when it's time to go,
All smiling and unafraid."

-- Larry E. Johnson

"Let him live to be a hundred! We want him here on earth.

"Early to rise and early to bed
makes a male healthy and wealthy
and dead.

--James Thurber

"May the devil cut the toes off all our foes, that we may know them by their limping."

"Ad multos annos - to many years!

- Latin toast from Governor Mario Cuomo
to President Ronald Reagan at the 1988
Gridiron dinner, Washington D.C.

To the spirit of Christmases yet to come.

--World War II toast

Rated G

Though life is now pleasant and sweet to the sense
We'll be damnably mouldy a hundred years hense.

--Old pirate toast

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

"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

"The love you give away is the only love you keep."

"To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.

-- Ben Jonson

To Maturity
When there's snow on the roof,
there's fire in the furnace.

Here's to the memory
Of the man
That raised the corn
That fed the goose
That bore the quill
That made the pen
That wrote the Declaration of Independence

It is my loving sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment - Independence now and Independence forever!

The following known as the Jacobite Toast, is ascribed to Lord Duff who presented it in the year 1745.

A..B..C...A Blessed Change.

D..E..F...Down Every Foreigner.

G..H..J...Good Help James.

K..L..M...Keep Lord Marr.

N..O..P...Noble Ormond Preserve.

Q..R..S...Quickly Resolve Stewart.

T..U..V..W...Truss Up Vile Whigs.

" Only the young die good."

--Oliver Herford

"May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age."

"Your not as young as you used to be
But you're not as old as you're going to be
So watch it!

I used to know a clever toast
But pshaw! I cannot think it-
So fill your glass to anything
and, bless your souls, I'll drink it.

Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers,
Drink to their father and to their brothers;
Toast their dear healths as long as your able,
And dream of their charms while your under the table.

"Here's to us that are here, to you that are there, and the rest of us everywhere."

Rudyard Kipling

"Here's to your good health,
and your family's good health
and may you all live long and prosper."

"We haven't all the good fortune to be ladies; we have not all been generals, or poets or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies we stand on common ground. We've all been babies."

--Mark Twain

"Here's to champagne, the drink devine,
That makes us forget our troubles;
It's made of a dollar's worth of wine
and three dollar's worth of bubbles."*

* This is the original version of the toast, at least nine decades old; so you may have to inflate the dollar amount to up date it.

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