“May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman”

Irish Toast
;   "May your heart be light and happy, May your smile be big and wide, And may your pockets always have a coin or two inside!"  Phil Connors speach Take 1- from Groundhog Day (the Movie) "Once a year, the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny Pennsylvania hamlet... to watch a master at work. The master?    Punxsutawney Phil...the world's most famous weatherman, the groundhog...  who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring.    The question we have to ask ourselves today is,    Does Phil feel lucky?"    Then it's the same old schtick. The guy with the big stick raps on the door. They pull the little rat out.    They talk to him.    The rat talks back and then they tell us what's gonna happen.    Isn't he cute?    You like your guys with prominent upper teeth?    This February at : and seconds... Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers...    prognosticator of prognosticators...    emerged reluctantly, but alertly... in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania... and stated in Groundhogese...    "I definitely see a shadow. "     Sorry, folks.     Six more weeks of winter."  Phil Connors speach take 2.."It's Groundhog Day again.     That must mean we're at Gobbler's Knob waiting for the forecast...    from the world's most famous groundhog weatherman...    Punxsutawney Phil...    who is just about to tell us how much more winter we can expect."  Phil Connors speach take 3 "This is pitiful.    A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. What a hype.     Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town.     They used to pull the hog out and eat it! You're hypocrites, all of you!     You got a problem with what I'm saying?     Untie your tongue, and you come out here and talk.     Am I upsetting you, Princess?     You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil.     I'll give you a winter prediction.    It's gonna be cold...   it's gonna be gray...    and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."  Phil Connors speach take 4 "Once again, the eyes of the nation have turned here to this...     tiny village in western Pennsylvania.     There is no way that this winter...   is ever going to end...   as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow.     I don't see any other way out.     He has to be stopped.     I have to stop him."  Phil Connors speach take 5 "When Chekhov saw the long winter...   he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope.     Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life.     But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney...   and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts...     I couldn't imagine a better fate...   than a long and lustrous winter.     From Punxsutawney, it's Phil Connors.     So long."  "May we never have friends who, like shadows, follow us in sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day."  "Success to the lover, honor to the brave,Health to the sick, and freedom to the slave." - Traditional  "May I see you grey and combing your grandchildren’s hair." - Traditional  "There are many good reasons for drinking, And one has just entered my head, If a man doesn't drink when he's living, How the hell can he drink when he's dead!"  "A glass in the hand’s worth two on the shelf, Tipple it down and refresh yourself!" - Anonymous  "Here's to ( -person's name- ), (s)he's true blue, (S)he's a wanker through & through, (S)he's a bastard so they say, Tried to get to heaven but (s)he went the other way. Drink it down, down, down."  "Here's to you, you're true blue, A wanker through & through, You're a bastard so they say, Tried to get to heaven but you went the other way. Drink it down, down, down."  "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night."  "Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers, Drink to the fathers and to their brothers; Toast their dear healths as long as you’re able, And dream of their charms while under the table." - Anonymous  "The Frenchman loves his native wine,  The German loves his beer. The Englishman loves his 'alf and 'alf, Because it brings good cheer.   The Irishman loves his whiskey straight, Because it gives him dizziness.   The American has no choice at all, So he drinks the whole damn business."  "Though life is now pleasant and sweet to the sense We'll be damnably mouldy a hundred years hence."  "May we get what we want, May we get what we need, But may we never get what we deserve." -Cedric  "May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather." - Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church  "Here's to the dove that flies above and never sheds a feather If I can't be with the one I love I'll be drinkin' this stuff forever"  "Champagne costs too much,  Whiskey's too rough,  Vodka puts big mouths in gear.  This little refrain Should help to explain Why it's better to order a beer!"  "Always remember to forget The things that made you sad.    But never forget to remember The things that made you glad..     Always remember to forget The friends that proved untrue.     But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you..     Always remember to forget The troubles that passed away.     But never forget to remember The blessings that come each day." - Traditional Irish  "Gentlemen, start your livers!" - Traditional Racing Toast  "May our faults be written on the seashore, and every good action prove a wave to wash them out."  "Here's to health, peace and prosperity.     May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends."  "Here's to me in my sober mood,  When I ramble, sit, and think.     Here's to me in my drunken mood,  When I gamble, sin, and drink.     Here's to when my days are over,   And from this world I pass, I hope they bury me upside down,     So the world can kiss my ass!"  "I drink to Woman for each of them who makes a fool out of a man,    there is another who makes a man out of a fool."  "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  "May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you." - Traditional Irish  "May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up." - Traditional Irish  "I used to know a clever toast,     But now I cannot think of it,    So fill your glass to anything,    And damn your souls, I’ll drink to it!"  "The horse and mule live thirty years And never knows of wines and beers.     The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye.     The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done.     The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin.     The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.     But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten.     And some of us...though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two."  "Drinking will make a man quaff,   Quaffing will make a man sing,   Singing will make a man laugh,    And laughing long life doth bring." - Thomas D'Urfey (Tom Durfey) (1653 – February 26, 1723) was an English writer.  "Here's to your health,   Fitness and tone.     I've drank to your health so many times,   I've ruined my god damned own."  "Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day,     Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead."  "May you never steal, lie or cheat.    But if you have to steal,   then steal away my sorrows.    If you have to lie,  then lie with me all the nights of our life.     If you have to cheat,   then cheat death because I don't want to live a day without you." - Traditional Irish "May you live as long as you want,    And never want as long as you live." - Traditional Irish  "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,     And may trouble avoid you wherever you go." - Traditional Irish  "God then made man.    The Italian for their beauty.    The French for fine food.    The Swedes for intelligence.    The Jew for religion.    And on and on until he looked at what he had created and said,     'This is all very fine but no one is having fun.     I guess I'll have to make me an Irishman.'"  "Always remember to forget The friends that proved untrue.     But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you." - Traditional Irish  "May you have warm words on a cold evening,   a full moon on a dark night,    and a smooth road all the way to your door." - Traditional Irish  "May the road rise to meet you.     May the wind be always at your back.     May the sun shine warm upon your face.     And rains fall soft upon your fields.     And until we meet again,    May God hold you in the hollow of His hand." - Traditional Irish  "Here’s hoping that you live forever  And mine is the last voice you hear." - Willard Scott, (born Marchch 7, 1934), from A Gentleman’s Guide to Toasting.  "When money's tight and hard to get and your horse is also RAN,     When all you have is a heap of debt a pint of plain is your only MAN." - Traditional Irish  "Here's to Hell!     May the stay there,   Be as much fun as the way there!" - Traditional Irish  "May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold...     And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold." - Traditional Irish  "An Irishman is never drunk as long as He can hold onto one blade of grass and not Fall off the face of the earth."  "Health and a long life to you.     Land without rent to you.     A child every year to you.     And if you can't go to heaven,    May you at least die in Ireland." - Traditional Irish  "Health and life to you;     The mate of your choice to you;     Land without rent to you,     And death in Eirinn." - Traditional Irish  "May the winds of fortune sail you,     May you sail a gentle sea.     May it always be the other guy who says,    'this drink's on me.'" - Traditional Irish  "May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load.     May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road...     And may all your friends remember all the favours you are owed!" - Traditional Irish  "Tis my will when I die,   not a tear shall be shed.     No Hie Jacet be graved on my stone,    But pour o'er my coffin a bottle of red,    And write that His Drinking is Done."  "May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past." - Traditional Irish  "The anniversary of St. Patrick's day,   and may the Shamrock be green forever." - Traditional Irish  "Saint Patrick was a gentleman,   Who through strategy and stealth,   Drove all the snakes from Ireland, Here’s a toasting to his health.    But not too many toastings Lest you lose yourself and then Forget the good Saint Patrick And see all those snakes again.   'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'   Happy St. Patrick's Day!"  "May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold —    And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold." - Traditional Irish  "If you’re enough lucky to be Irish...  You’re lucky enough!"  "May God grant you many years to live,   for sure he must be knowing, the earth has angels all too few and heaven is overflowing."  "May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks May your heart be as light as a song May each day bring you bright Happy hours that stay with you all the year long." - Traditional Irish  "May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head.     May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead." - Traditional Irish  "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,     May good luck pursue you each morning and night." - Traditional Irish  "May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace...    May your troubles grow less as your blessings increase!" - Traditional Irish  "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,     May good luck pursue you each morning and night." - Traditional Irish  "Stin Eyiassou!" (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh)    Greek)      "To Your Health!" - Traditional Greek  "Why, if 'tis dancing you would be,    There's brisker pipes than poetry.     Say, for what were hop-yards meant,     Or why was Burton built on Trent?     Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse,    And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.     Ale, man,   ale's the stuff to drink,   For fellows whom it hurts to think:    Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not." - A.E. Housmann (born Alfred Edward Housman Marchch 26th, 1859 – April 30th 1936), an English classical scholar and poet.  "Here's to beauty, wit, and beer,     and to a full stomach, a full purse, and a light heart." - Traditional Irish  "A full belly,    a heavy purse,    and a light heart." - Traditional Irish  "In heaven there is no beer...    That's why we drink ours here."  "May the luck of the Irish Lead to happiest heights,   And the highway you travel Be lined with green lights.     Wherever you go and whatever you do,    May the luck of the Irish be there with you." - Traditional Irish  "May the sun shine all day long,   everything go right,   and nothing wrong.     May those you love bring love back to you,   and may all the wishes you wish come true!" - Traditional Irish  "May the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be towards us." - Traditional Irish  "Roses are red Violets are blue,     I've got Alzheimer's Cheese on toast"  "Vashi"   Baluchi - Iran  “Of all my favorite things to do,    The utmost is to have a brew.     My love grows for my foamy friend,   With each thirst-quenching elbow bend.     Beer’s so frothy,  smooth and cold    – It’s paradise – pure liquid gold.     Yes, beer means many things to me…    That’s all for now, I gotta pee!”  "There are good ships,   and there are wood ships,     The ships that sail the sea.     But the best ships, are friendships,   And may they always be."  "May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too,    And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you." - Traditional Irish  "May you live as long as you like,     And have all you like as long as you live."  “May you live as long as you want,    And never want as long as you live”  "May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it." - Traditional Irish  "Here’s to fine wine, women, and SONG.     And here’s to workdays that aren’t too LONG.     Here’s to shoes that always FIT.     And here’s to you, you silly SH*T!"  "With small beer, good ale and wine,    O ye gods!     How I shall dine!"  "Let No Man Thirst For Lack Of Real Ale."  "A generation of children on the children of your children."  "Thirst is a shameless disease so here's to a shameful cure."  "May you always have walls for the winds,   a roof for the rain,   tea beside the fire,   laughter to cheer you,   those you love near you,    and all your heart might desire." - Traditional Irish  "Here's to a temperance supper,   With water in glasses tall,    And coffee and tea to end with  --   And me not there at all!"  "I'd rather have a dinner while I'm living,    than a monument when I'm dead,    for the dinner will be on my friends,    while the monument would be on me."  "So that our children will have wealthy parents."  "May we never be in need of a friend to cheer us,    or a bottle to cheer him."  "I'll drink to the Girls who do!     I'll drink to the Girls who don't!     But...I won't drink to Girls Who say they will and won't!"  "I wish you health,    I wish you well,    and happiness galore.     I wish you luck for you and friends;    what could I wish you more?      May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as its foam.     And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam."  "On with the dance!    let joy be unconfined;   No sleep till morn,   when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." - Lord Byron (January 22nd, 1788 – April 19th, 1824), an English poet.  "Laugh at all things,   Great and small things,    Sick and well,    at sea or shore;    While we are quaffing,    Let’s have laughing,    Who the devil cares for more?" - Lord Byron  "Here's to cheating, stealing, fighting, and smoking.     If you cheat, cheat death.     If you steal, steal a woman's heart.     If you fight, fight for a brother.     And If you smoke, then smoke with me!!"  "So live that when you come to die, even the undertaker will feel sorry for you." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known as Mark Twain, he was an American author and humorist.  "The devil invented Whiskey to make the Irish poor."  "May our house always be too small to hold all our friends."  "May you...  Work like you don't need the money,    love like you've never been hurt,    dance like no-one is watching,    screw like it's being filmed,    and drink like a true Irishman."  "Here's to my mother-in-law,    who still calls me a son...    But I never let her finish the sentence."  "Here's to the women that I've loved and all the ones I've kissed.     As for regrets, I just have one;   that's all the ones I've missed."    "Oh, women's faults are many,    us men have only two:     Every single thing we say,   and everything we do."  "To Death,    the jolly old bouncer,    now Our glasses let's be clinking;    If he hadn't put other out,    I trow,  To-night we'd not be drinking." - Oliver Herford (1863–1935) a British born American writer, artist and illustrator.  "To the lamp of love:    may it burn brightest in the darkest hours    and never flicker in the winds of trial." - Unknown  "Here's To Friends And Heroes,     They say in life we need friends and heros,     As I look out upon all of you today,     I raise my glass and say to you  ....   I am glad I can be both."  "Wasser ist billig,  rein und gut;   Doch verdunt es unser blut." - translation - "Water is cheap,    pure and good   ...   but it thins the blood." - Dutch.  "Let all thy joys be as the month of May,    And all thy days be as a Mariage day." - Francis Quarles  "Here's to the girl,   with eyes of brown,     Who cheers you up,   when you're feeling down,     Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,    Who has a nice smile,    and a heart so true,     Here's to the girl, with eyes of green,   Whose silky hair, is the fairest I've seen,    But, no matter their hue,    Yours are best,    know why?    'cause yours laugh when mine laugh     and cry, when mine cry.' - Variation -"Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,    Whose hear is kind and love is true;     Here's to the girl with eyes of brown,   Who's spirit proud you cannot down;     Here's to the girl with eyes of gray, Whose sunny smile drives care away,      Whate'er the hue of their eyes may be"  "Here's to you and here's to me,    Friends may we always be!     But, if by chance we disagree,   Up yours!    Here's to me!"  "My grandmother is over 80 And still doesn't need glasses.      Drinks right out of the bottle."  "Dance as if no one were watching,    Sing as if no one were listening,     And live every day as if it were your last."  "May your joys be as deep as the ocean    And your misfortunes as light as the foam."  "Here's to all of the women who have used me and abused me    ...    And may they continue to do so!" - Unknown  "Here's to your health   -   a long life and an easy death to you."  "To friends:     as long as we are able To lift our glasses from the table." - Anonymous  "May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.      May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.      May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.     And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through." - Traditional Irish  "Here's to the wonderful days of my life when I slept in the arms of another man's wife     ...      My mother!" - A good Mother's Day toast  "But if at church they give some ale And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale      We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day     Nor ever once from the church to stray."  "Here’s to the bottle which holds a store Of imprisoned joy and laughter!       Here’s to this bottle, Many more bottles,      And others to follow after." - Anonymous  "Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright;      Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white;      Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer;     Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?"  - 19th Century Toast  "May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too,     And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you."  -  Traditional Irish  "Here's to God's first thought,   Man!      Here's to God's second thought,   Woman!     Seconds thoughts are always best,     So here's to Woman!"  -  Unknown  "To your good health, old friend,     may you live for a thousand years,     and I be there to count them." -  Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 Marchch 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer  "To our host,    An excellent man.     For is not a man Fairly judged by the Company he keeps?"  -  Anonymous  "Here's to our enemies  ....   Laying face down,    cold in their graves" -  A good Armed Forces Day toast  "May your joys be as bright as the morning;    And your sorrow but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love."  "Here's to your health!     You make age curious,    Time furious,    and all of us envious."  "Old wood to burn,   Old books to read,   Old wine to drink,   Old friends to trust."  "For every wound, a balm.     For every sorrow, cheer.     For every storm, a calm.     For every thirst, a beer" - Unknown  "A man takes a drink;     the drink takes a drink;     the drink takes the man."  "To friendship:    May differences of opinion cement it." - Anonymous  "A day for toil,    an hour for sport,     But for a friend life is too short."  -  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25th, 1803 - April 27th, 1882), an American poet.  "Party with laughter and beer,    And hug everyone who is dear.     For you can’t be sure,    As you grow more mature,    You’ll be able to party next year" - Traditional  "Here's to the Army and the Navy,    And to the battles they've won.     Here's to America's colors,    The colors that never run." - A good Memorial Day toast   "Here's to Them..    That wish us well,    All the rest.. Can Go to Hell.     Here's To the Men,    Here's To Health,    Here's health and PROSPERITY,    to you and your POSTERITY,     and to them that don't drink with SINCERITY,    may they be damned for all ETERNITY." - Unknown  "A toast to love and laughter and happily ever after" - Unknown  "You foam within our glasses,    you lusty golden brew,    Whoever imbibes takes fire from you.     The young and the old sing your praises,     Here's to beer, Here's to cheer, Here's to beer!" - From the opera, "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana, first performed May 30th, 1866 at at the Provisional Theatre, Prague.  "That a doctor might never earn a dollar out of you,     And that your heart may never give out." - Traditional  "May we be happy and our enemies know it." - Anonymous  "In Vino Veritas,    In Cervesio Felicitas"  - translation -  "In wine there is wisdom,    In beer there is joy." - Traditional Italian  "While we live,    Let’s live." - Traditional Italian  "God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,     The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,     And the eyesight to tell the difference" - Traditional  "The health of the salmon to you   ...    a long life,    a full heart    and a wet mouth!" - Anonymous  "God bless the corners of this house and all the lintel blessed.    And bless the hearth and bless the board and bless each place of rest.    And bless each door that opens wide to strangers as to kin.    And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in and bless the rooftree overhead.    And every sturdy wall.    The peace of man, the peace of God.    The peace or love on all."  -  Unknown  "Here’s to cheating, stealing, fighting, and drinking.     If you cheat, may you cheat death.     If you steal, may you steal a woman’s heart.     If you fight, may you fight for a brother.     And if you drink, may you drink with me."  - Traditional Irish  "Starkle starkle little twink,    who the hell you are I think,     I’m not under what you call,     the alcofluence of alcohol,     I’m just a little slort of sheep,     I’m not drunk like tinkle peep,    I don’t know who is me yet,   but the drunker I stand here   the longer I get,     Just give me one more drink to fill me cup,     ‘cuz I got all day sober to Sunday up."  - Traditional  "The German likes his BEER,     The Pommy likes his half and half  Because it brings good CHEER,    The Scotsman likes his whisky And the Irishman likes his hot The Aussie has no national drink So he drinks the bloody lot." - Traditional  "May we breakfast with Health,    dine with Friendship,    crack a bottle with Mirth,    and sup with the goddess Contentment." - Anonymous  "May the saddest day of your future    be no worse Than the happiest day of your past." - Traditional Irish  "To the old,    long life and treasure;     To the young,   all health and pleasure;     To the fair,  their face,  With eternal grace;     And the rest,    to be loved at leisure." - Ben Jonson (June 11th, 1572 – August 6th, 1637), an English Renaissance dramatist.  "May the roof above you never fall in,     And those gathered beneath it never fall out." - Traditional Irish  "A statesman is an easy man,   he tells his lies by rote.     A journalist invents his lies,    and rams them down your throat.     So stay at home and drink your beer    and let the neighbors vote." - William Butler Yeats (June 13th, 1865 – January 28th, 1939),an Irish poet.  "Here’s to the man who drinks strong ale,    and goes to bed quite mellow.      Lives as he ought to live,    and dies a jolly good fellow." - Unknown  "Here's health to your enemies' enemies!" - Traditional  "A little health,    a little wealth,    A little house and freedom.     With some few friends for certain ends,    But little cause to need ‘em." -  Anonymous  "Here’s to those who love us,    And here’s to those who don’t,    A smile for those who are willing to,    And a tear for those who won’t."  - Anonymous  "To the thirst that is yet to come." - Traditional Irish  "Here’s to the maiden of bashful FIFTEEN;     Here’s to the widow of fifty;     Here’s to the flaunting extravagant QUEEN;     And here’s to the housewife that’s thirty.     Let the toast PASS...    Drink to the LASS...   I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the GLASS.     For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be SLIM,    Young or ancient,    I care not a FEATHER;    So fill a pint bumber quite up to the BRIM,    And let us e’en toast ‘em TOGETHER.     Let the toast PASS...   Drink to the LASS...   I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the GLASS."  - Traditional  "To Alcohol...    a liquid good for preserving almost anything   except secrets." - Gideon Wurdz, from the foolish dictionary.  "Here's to the Ladies,    We admire them for their beauty,    respect them for their intelligence,    adore them for their virtue,    and love them,    because we can't help it." -Anonymous  "It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow   than to spend tonight like there's no money!" - Unknown  "Here's to us,   And those like us.     Damn few and they're probably dead.    Cheers!" - Anonymous  "Here's to a guy who is never blue,    Here's to a buddy who is ever true,   Here's to a pal, no matter what the load,    Who never Declines,    just one for the road." - Unknown  "A drink,   my lass,   in a deep clear glass,    Just properly tempered by ice,    And here’s to the lips mine have kissed,    And if they were thine,   here’s twice."  - Anonymous  "Daylight comes through the drunkard's roof the fastest." - Unknown  "Here's to the perfect girl,    I couldn't ask for more.    She's deaf 'n dumb,   oversexed,    and owns a liquor store." - Anonymous  "Here's to wives and sweethearts!     May they never meet." - Anonymous  "May your night be like a kitchen table  …  four legs and no drawers." - Unknown  "To times weve had.   Some were happy,   some were sad.    Memories, our partners in crime.   Throwing up a thousand times." - Unknown  "May the winds of fortune sail you,  May you sail a gentle sea.   May it always be the other guy who says, 'this drink’s on me.'"  - Traditional  "Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone,   and still drink more;    But drunk is he who prostrate lies,  Without the power to drink or rise."  - Variation -  "He is not drunk who from the floor Can rise alone and drink some more;    But he is drunk who prostrate liles, And cannot drink or cannot rise" - Traditional  "Here’s to those that wish us well,    all the rest can go to hell." - Anonymous.  "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, A good fourth of July Toast  "Here’s to love.    It doesn’t make the world go ’round,   It’s what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones  "May the friends of our youth   be the companions of our old age." - Anonymous  "May all your ups and downs be under the blankets." - Unknown  "None so deaf as those who will not hear.     None so blind as those who will not see.     But I’ll wager none so deaf nor so blind that he Sees not   nor hears me say come drink this beer." - W.L. Hasoldt  "Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker."  "Down your throat,   Into your bladder,    Which end it comes out,   Does it really matter?" - Unknown  "We drink to your coffin.   May it be built from the wood of a hundred year old oak tree   that I shall plant tomorrow." - Variation - "May your coffin have six handles of finest silver!     May your coffin be carried by six fair young maids!     And may your coffin be made of finest wood from a 100-year-old tree that I'll go plant tomorrow!" - Traditional Irish  "Come,   sit we by the fireside And roundly drink we hear,    Till that we see our cheeks all dyed,    And noses tanned with beer." - Traditional  "Here’s to the four hinges of Friendship   ...   Swearing, Lying, Stealing, and Drinking.    When you swear, swear by your country.    When you lie, lie for a pretty woman.    When you steal, steal away from bad company.    And when you drink, drink with me." - Anonymous  "Here's to France,   the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world,    A Votre Sante!" - A good Bastille Day quote (July 14th)  "For every wound,  a balm.     For every sorrow,  cheer.     For every storm,  a calm.     For every thirst, a beer." - Traditional  "Here’s to the heart that fills as the bottle empties." - Anonymous  "Make new friends,    but keep the old;     These are silver,    those are gold.     New-made friends,    like new wine,    Age will mellow and refine.     Brow may furrow,   hair turn gray,   But friendship never knows Decay."  - Art Linkletter (July 17th, 1912 - May 26th, 2010), a Canadian radio and television personality.  "From man's sweat and God's love,    beer came into the world" - Saint Arnold, recognized by the Catholic Church as the Patron Saint of Hop-Pickers and Belgian Brewers. His miracle was a Mug that never ran dry and satisfied thirsty crowd    "That the tap may be open when it rusts" - Traditional  "I once knew a girl who lived on a hill,    What she won't do her sister will   ...   So here's to her sister" - Anonymous  "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." - Traditional  "The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking." - Euripides  "Here’s to eternity,    may we spend it in as good company as this night finds us." - Anonymous  "A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig." - Unknown  "Now I, friend,   drink to you, friend,    As my friend drank to me,    And I, friend, charge to you, friend,    As my friend charge me,     That you, friend, drink to your friend,   As my friend drank to me;     And the more we drink together, friend,    The merrier we will be!" - Anonymous  "Let no man thirst for lack of Real Ale." - Unknown  "May the path to hell grow green with grass for want of use!"  "Here's to the women with faces so fair,     Framed in a wreath of beautiful hair,     Pretty red lips as soft as a rose,     How many have kissed them  God only knows." - Unknown  "May your last check bounce before you die." - Unknown  "Here's to King Solomon,    ruler and sage,    the wisest of men in history's page.     He had wives by the thousand,    and thought it was fun   ...   Here's hoping we know how to handle just one." - Unknown  “So here’s to all those summer nights when my feet hit the sand,    and the waves break my fall,    and all my friends around me out number the stars.” - Unknown  "The bubble winked at me and said,    'You'll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'"  - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer  "Love,    There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,    and the love of a staunch true man.    There's the love of a baby that's unafraid,    all have existed since time began.     But the most wonderful love,   the Love of Loves,   even greater than the love for Mother,    is the intimate,    tenderest, passionate love   ...   of one dead drunk for another." - Variation - "The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,    The love of a staunch true man,    The love of a baby unafraid,    Has existed since time began;   But the greatest love, the love of loves,   Even greater than that of a mother,   Is the tender, passionate,   infinite love Of one drunken bum for another."  “Here’s to us girls with the high-heeled shoes …  We spend your money and drink your booze … We may have no cherry,  but that’s no sin … We still have the box that it came in!” - Unknown  “Amazing friends;   summer nights;   Chocolate ice cream;   mud slide fights;   Half the summer is gone already.   So lets spend the rest of it;   slow and steady.” - Unknown  "Here's to being single  ...  Drinking doubles  ...  And seeing triple!" - Unknown  "To the lamp of love  ...  may it burn brightest in the darkest hours  and never flicker in the winds of trial." - Unknown  "May your troubles be less and your blessings be more,    and nothing but happiness come through the door." - Traditional Irish  "Friendship's the wine of life.   Let's drink of it and to it." - Unknown  "For every wound,  a balm.    For every sorrow,  cheer.    For every storm,  a calm.    For every thirst, a beer." - Traditional  “Here’s to the nights where the sand is your seat,    the waves kiss your feet,    your friends outnumber the stars,    and even the chilliest of nights are still warmer than the cold one in your hand.” - Unknown  "To Mom's cooking:    May my wife never find out how bad it really was." - Unknown  "Here's to the girls of the American shore,    I love but one,    I love no more;    Since she's not here to drink her part,   I drink her share with all my heart." - Unknown  "Here's Champagne to our real friends   and real pain to our sham friends." - Unknown  "Don't worry about the future,   The present is all thou hast,   The future will soon be present,   And the present will soon be past." - Unknown  “May you be half an hour in heaven,   Before the devil knows your dead." - Traditional Irish Variation      "Here's hoping you're in Heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you're dead." - Irish Toast "Here's to bread, eggs and cinnamon." - French Toast  "Here's to all of your friends   ...   they know you far too well,    and they still like you." - Unknown  "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy   and wealthy   and dead." - James Thurber  "My heart is as full as my glass,    When I drink to you,    old friend!" - Unknown  "Here's a toast to all who are here,    no matter where you're from.     May the best day you have seen,    be worse than your worse to come." - Traditional Irish  "Here’s to our guest   ...   Don’t let him rest.     But keep his elbow bending.     ‘Tis time to drink   ...   Full time to think Tomorrow   ...   when you’re mending." - Unknown  "Then here's to the heartening wassail,    Wherever good fellows are found;    Be its master instead of its vassal,    And order the glasses around." - Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19th, 1902 – May 19th, 1971), an American poet known for light verse.  "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,    With the sparkle of beer and wine;    May its sentiment always be deeper,   my friends,    Than the foam at the top of the stein." - Traditional  "The man that isn’t jolly after drinking,   Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking." - Euripides  "I drink Martinis.   Two at the very most.    Three I'm under the table.    Four I'm under the host" - Dorothy Parker (August 22nd, 1893 – June 7th, 1967), an American poet.  "Drink,  and dance,  and laugh,  and lie,   Love the reeling midnight through,   For tomorrow we shall die!    But, alas, we never do." - Dorothy Parker  "May the most you wish for be the least you get." - Traditional Irish  "Come, sit we by the fireside And roundly drink we hear,   Till that we see our cheeks all dyed And noses tanned with beer." - Robert Herrick (baptized August 24th, 1591 – buried October 15th, 1674), an English poet.  "Here's to the wine we love to drink,    and the food we like to eat.     Here's to our wives and sweethearts,    let's pray they never meet.     Here's champagne for our real friends,  And real pain for our sham friends.     And when this life is over,    may all of us find peace." - Traditional  "Times are hard, And wages are small,     So drink more beer,     And f**k em all." - Unknown  "May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow.    The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow." - Unknown  "Solange man nüchtern ist,   gefällt das Schlechte.     Wie man getrunken hat,    weiss man das Rechte." - Translation - "When one is sober,    the bad can appeal.     When one has taken a drink,    One knows what's real." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28th, 1749 - Marchch 22nd, 1832), a German writer.  "Here's health in homely rhyme To our oldest classmate,    Father Time;     May our last survivor live to be As bold and wise   and as thorough as he!" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American professor and author  "To eternity,    may it last forever!" - Unknown  "To all the days here and after.    May they be filled with fond memories,  happiness,  and laughter." - Traditional  "May the hinges of friendship never rust,    or the wings of love lose a feather" - Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), a clergyman and Dean of Edinburgh.  "Here's to a sweetheart,    a bottle,   and a friend.     The first beautiful,   the second full,   the last ever faithful." - Traditional  "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine." - Unknown  "May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmothers teeth." - Unknown  "Here's to women,   beer,   and song,   may none of them be flat." - Unknown  "May you never go to hell But always be on your way." - Traditional Yiddish  "Here’s to health and PROSPERITY,    To you and all your POSTERITY,    And them that doesn’t drink with SINCERITY,    That they may be damned for all ETERNITY!" - Unknown  "Before you call for one for the road   be sure you know the road." - Unknown  "Accept that some days you're the pigeon   And some days you're the statue." - Unknown  "Bottoms up,  Tops down.    Wear a smile,   Not a frown." - Unknown  "May we live to learn well,    And learn to live well." - Unknown  "To the holidays   ...   all 365 of them." - Anonymous  "When life''s on the line!  -  We''re the first to respond.     Play it safe!  -  You may be my job one day.     God Bless, to my Brothers that were lost in 9/11"   - FDNY toast  "Be one who drinks the finest of ales.     Every day without fail.     Even when you have drank enough,   Remember that ale is wonderful stuff." - Unknown  "Some friends wish you happiness,   and others wish you wealth...     But I wish you the best of all...   contentment blessed with health!" - Unknown  "Happiness being a dessert so sweet,   May life give you more than you can ever eat" - Traditional  "Here’s to hard work and fun filled vacations.    Great workmates and high expectations.     Here’s to all your success and all the raised glasses.    So, this toast is for you, cuz you all are bad asses!" - Anonymous  "We'll think of all the friends we know    And drink to all worth drinking to." - Unknown  "May you live as long as you want,   And never want as long as you live." - Traditional Irish, In celebration of St. Patrick's day in the Summer.  "To Alcohol   ...   a liquid good for preserving almost anything except secrets." - Gideon Wordz  "I'll drink to the girls that will,    I'll drink to the girls that won't,    But I won't drink to the girls that say they will,    And then I find out they don't." - Unknown  "Love to one,    friendship to many,    and good will to all." - Traditional  "May you both grow old on one pillow." - Traditional Armenian  "May you live as long as you are fit to live,    but no longer!    or,    may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live,  than after!" -  Philip Dormer Stanhope (September 22nd, 1694 - March 24th, 1773), the 4th Earl of Chesterfield and British statesman.  "Here's champagne to your real friends,    And real pain to your sham friends!" - Unknown  "May we have more and more friends,    and need them less and less." - Traditional  "Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer,    and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." -  Marchk Hawkins, in the New York Times, September 25, 1977  "The truth comes out when the spirit goes in." - Unknown  "May our house always be too small to hold all our friends." - Myrtle Reed (September 27th, 1874 – August 17th , 1911), an American author and poet.  "He that buys land buys many stones.    He that buys flesh buys many bones.    He that buys eggs buys many shells,    But he that buys good beer buys nothing else." - Traditional  "Here's to good old whiskey   ...    may those who use it never abuse it." - Unknown  "He who goes to bed,   and goes to bed sober,   Falls as the leaves do,   and dies in October.     But he who goes to bed,   and does so mellow, shall live as he ought to,   and dies a good fellow." - Traditional  "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 Marchx (born Julius Henry Marchx - October 2nd, 1890 - August 19th, 1977), an American comedian.  "Here's to a long life and a merry one.     A quick death and an easy one.     A pretty girl and an honest one.     A cold pint-- and another one!" - Variation - "Here's to a long life and a merry one,    A quick death and an easy one,    A pretty wife and a true one,   A cold drink and another one."- Traditional Irish  "A toast to bread,    as without bread,    we'd have no toast" - Unknown  "Das Leben ist bezaubernd,    man muss es nur durch die richtige Brille sehen." - Translation - "Life is wonderful,    you just need to see it through the right glasses." - Traditional German  "Here's to our native land!    May we live for it,   and die in it." - Traditional  "When wine enlivens the heart   may friendship surround the table." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American physician (also see August 29th)  "Make we make the most of what we may yet spend,   Before we too into the Dust descend;     Dust into Dust,   and under Dust to lie,   Sans wine,   sans song,   sans singer,   and sans end." - Omar Khayyam  "May your Guardian Angel be at your side to pick you up off the floor    and hand ya another cold one." - Unknown  "Health to you,    and wealth to you,    and the best that life can give to you!" - Traditional  "Re-live it as often as you like.     It is free and it never wears out.     It’s the memory we’re making today,    right now." - Unknown  "Better a well known drunkard   Than an anonymous alcoholic." - Traditional Spanish   "A toast is a BOAST or other COMPOST To a guest or the host or one we love MOST;     To a CHINK or some GINK that is blacker than INK... Or any old thing for a chance to DRINK." - Traditional  "Old wood to burn,    Old books to read,    Old wine to drink,    Old friends to trust." - Traditional  "Here’s to eternity   ...   May we spend it in as good company as this night finds us." - Unknown  "Too much work,    and no vacation,    Deserves at least a small libation.     So hail!   my friends,   and raise your glasses;     Work’s the curse of the drinking classes." - Last line is Oscar Wilde (October 16th, 1854 – November 30th, 1900), an Irish writer and poet.  "To my friend   ...   If we ever disagree,    may you be in the right." - Traditional  "May you always have a cool head and a warm heart." - Traditional  "May we always mingle in the friendly bowl, The feast of reason and I he flow of the soul." - Unknown  "A round to the best,    May we never get less,     A round to the worst,    May they die of thirst." - Traditional Scottish  "May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed,    and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed." - Traditional  "For [City's name] hath no sober man,    Or none of milk sop thinkers,   And no philosophical fools,   But great and glorious drinkers!" - Traditional  "May the strength of three be in your journey." - Traditional  "Our enemies never drink,    Our friends always do,    So let’s drink this drink,    And find out who is who." - Traditional  "Here's to the great artistic genius, Pablo Picasso.    His last words were "Drink to me.”    Who am I to question genius?" - In honor of Pablo Picasso (October 25th, 1881 - April 8th, 1973),a Spanish painter.  "If I die before you,    Raise a glass to my name,     If you die before me,    I’ll do the same." - Unknown  "To friends:    As long as we are able To lift our glasses from the table." - Traditional  "Mother's in the kitchen washing out the JUGS,    Sister's in the pantry bottling the SUDS,    Father's in the cellar mixing up the HOPS'     Johnny's on the front porch watching for the COPS."  - Prohibition song  "Here's to Prohibition   ...   May it continue to reduce the number of men who think they can sing." - Unknown  "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship LENDS,    With the sparkle of beer and WINE;     May its sentiment always be deeper, my FRIENDS, Than the foam at the top of the STEIN." - Traditional  "Here’s to the Witches,    Here’s to their CATS,    Here’s to the hoot owls And Whirring BATS;    Here’s to the ghosties,   In robes of WHITE,   Here’s to the thrills of Hallowe’en NIGHT." - A good Halloween toast.   "Our lager,   Which art in barrels,   Hallowed be thy drink.     Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk),   At home as it is in the pub.     Give us this day our foamy head,   And forgive us our spillages,   As we forgive those who spill against us.     And lead us not to incarceration,   But deliver us from hangovers.     For thine is The beer, The bitter,  The lager.    Forever and ever,    Barmen." - The Beer Prayer  "It is around the drinking table that friends understand best,    the warmth of being together." - Traditional  "Twas an evening in NOVEMBER,    As I very well REMEMBER.    I was strolling down the street in drunken PRIDE,   But my knees were all AFLUTTER, So I landed in the GUTTER, And a pig came up a lay down by my SIDE.     Yes, I lay there in the GUTTER Thinking thoughts I could not UTTER,     When a colleen passing by did softly SAY,     'You can tell a man that BOOZES By the company he CHOOSES.'    At that the pig got up and walked AWAY!" - Traditional Irish Poem - Irish Pig  "It's the first drop that destroys you,    there's no harm at all in the last." - Unknown  "Here is to the fools of the world,    for without them the rest of us could not succeed." - Unknown  "Dogs do it,    cats do it,   monkeys have a TRY.     Mums do it,   dads do it,   so why don't you and I?" - Unknown  "To good friends,     Who know you well,    but like you anyway!" - Unknown  "Here's to beefsteak when you're hungry,    Whiskey when you're DRY,    All the women you'll ever want,    And heaven when you DIE."  - Variation -  "Here’s to steak when you’re hungry,   Whiskey when you’re DRY ,    A lover when you need one,   And Heaven when you DIE." - Traditional Irish  "When I think of Heaven,   I think of the past,    Surrounded by good friends   And raising a glass." - Traditional  "In the words of Oliver Goldsmith,    Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains,    With grammar and nonsense and learning;    Good liquor I stoutly maintain,    Gives genius a better discerning." - In honor of Oliver Goldsmith (November 10th, 1730 - April 4th, 1774), an Anglo-Irish poet.  "Be good.     If you can't be good,    be careful,    And if you can't be careful,    Name it after me." - Unknown  "Practice makes perfect,    there's many do THINK,    but a man's not too perfect when he's practiced at DRINK." - Unknown  "I have known many,   and liked not a few,    but loved only one,   and this toast is to you!" - Unknown  "Who'd care to be a bee and sip Sweet honey from the flower's lip,     When he might be a fly and steer Head first into a can of beer?" - Unknown  "Here's to the best key for unlocking friendship   -   whiskey." - Unknown  "Drink is the curse of the land   ...   It makes you fight with your neighbor   ...   It makes you shoot at your landlord   -   and it makes you miss him." - Unknown  "May there always be work for your hands to DO,    May your purse always hold a coin or TWO.     May the sun always shine warm on your windowPANE,    May a rainbow be certain to follow each RAIN.     May the hand of a friend always be NEAR YOU,    And may your heart be filled with gladness to CHEER YOU." - Traditional   "Why,   we'll smoke and drink our beer.    For I like a drop of good beer,   I does.     I'ze fond of good beer,    I is.     Let gentlemen fine sit down to their wine.     But we'll all of us here stick to our beer." - Old Somersetshire English song  "If the ocean was vodka and I was a DUCK,     I'd swim to the bottom and drink it all UP,    but the ocean's not vodka and I’m not a DUCK,   so pass me the bottle & lets get messed UP!!"     Variation        "If the ocean were whiskey,    and I were a DUCK,     I'd swim to the bottom and drink my way UP,   but the ocean's not whiskey,    and i'm not a DUCK,    so pass me the bottle and shut the F*CK UP." - Unknown  "Here’s to you and yours,    And to mine and ours,    And if mine and ours ever come,    Across you and yours,    I hope you and yours will do,    As much for mine and ours,    As mine and ours have done For you and yours!" - Traditional  "Let us acknowledge the evils of alcohol and strive to eliminate it   ...    one glass at a time." - Unknown  "May the circulating bottle never Cause our heads to turn with it." - Traditional  "May your bank account always be bigger than your troubles." - Traditional   "May our stuffing be tasty,     May our turkey be PLUMP,     May our potatoes and gravy,    Have nary a LUMP.     May our yams be delicious, And our pies take the PRIZE,    And may our (Thanksgiving) dinner Stay off our THIGHS!" - A Good thanksgiving quote   "To wish you joy on this day,    And all the whole year through,    For all the best that life can hold,    Is none too good for you." - Traditional  "Don't die of LOVE,    in heaven ABOVE   ...   Or hell, they'll not ENDURE YOU.      Why look so GLUM ...  when Doctor RUM   ...    Is waiting for to CURE YOU?" - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer.  "May you have warm words on a cold evening,     A full moon on a dark night,     And the road downhill all the way to your door." - Traditional Irish  "The bubble winked at me and said,    'You’ll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'" - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), a British-born American writer and artist.  "Lift 'em HIGH and drain 'em DRY ... To the guy who says, 'My turn to BUY.'" - Unknown  "Keep your head cool and your feet warm,     And a glass of good whiskey will do you no harm." - Unknown  "For, whether we're right or whether we're wrong,    There's a rose in every thistle." - Traditional Scottish  "Here's to it:    The fighting SHEEN OF IT,    The yellow, the GREEN OF IT,    The white, the BLUE OF IT,    The swing, the HUE OF IT,  The dark, the red of it.    The fair have SIGHED FOR IT, The brave have DIED FOR IT, Foeman SOUGHT FOR IT, Heroes FOUGHT FOR IT,    Honour the fame of it   ........   THE TARTAN" - Traditional  "May you live all the days of your life" - Jonathan Swift (November 30th, 1667 - October 19th, 1745), an Irish satirist.  "Here's to the heath,    the hill and the heather,    The bonnit,  the plaid,  the kilt and the feather." - Traditional Scottish  "Another day,   another bender,    No retreat and no surrender,    While tomorrow, we'll try to remember,    What to forget this day in December." - Unknown  "We'll think of all the friends we know,    And drink to all worth drinking to." - Unknown  "May your mornings bring joy,     and your evenings bring PEACE  ...   May your troubles grow less,    as your blessings INCREASE!     May you get all your wishes but one,     so that you will always have something to strive for!" - Traditional Irish  "When Christ turned water into wine,  There were no drys to scold and whine;     Today prohibitors would rail,    And send the Son of God to jail."  "What shall we drink to?   ...   To four in the morning!" - Unknown  "Here’s to cold nights,  warm friends,   and a good drink to give them." - Anonymous  "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." - James Grover Thurber (December 8th, 1894 – November 2nd, 1961), an American author and cartoonist.  "I do THINK,   we've had enough to DRINK,    now the time is SUCH   ...   let's drink too MUCH" - Unknown  "The horse and mule live thirty YEARS,    And never knows of wines and BEERS.     The goat and sheep at twenty DIE    Without a taste of scotch or RYE.,     The cow drinks water by the TON,    And at eighteen is mostly DONE.    The dog at fifteen cashes IN,    Without the aid of rum or GIN.     The modest, sober, bone-dry HEN,    Lays eggs for noggs and dies at TEN.     But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked MEN,    Survive three-score years and TEN.     And some of us...though mighty FEW,    Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-TWO." - Unknown  "To the corkscrew   ...   a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,    the treasury of laughter,    the front door of fellowship,    and the gate of pleasant folly." - Unknown  "And there's nothing so desperate, so dull or so DREAR,   as to sit at the bar,   of a pub with no BEER,     So raise me a glass,   as I sit right HERE, And pray once more,   I'll never face that FEAR." - Unknown  "May all your joys be pure joys,    And all your pain Champagne." - Unknown  "If all be true as we do think,   There are five reasons why we drink:     Good beer,   a Friend,   or being Dry,   Or lest one should be,   by and by … Or any other reason why!" - Henry Aldrich (1647 – 14 Decemberember 1710) Dean of Christ Church and English philosopher.  "To the holidays  —  all 365 of them." - Anonymous  "Now,  thrice welcome,  Christmas,   Which brings us good cheer,    Mince pies and plum pudding,   Strong ale and strong beer!" - Christmas Toast   "I wish you a Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year,     A pocket full of money,     And a cellar full of beer!" - Christmas Toast   "Christmas... Here's to holly and ivy hanging up,    And to something wet in every cup." - Traditional Christmas Toast   "May you live as long as you Wish,   and have all you Wish as long as you live.    This is my Wish for you." - Unknown  "May your sheep all have lambs but not on tonight." - Traditional Irish  "Peace and plenty for many a year to come." - Traditional Irish  "May you never be without a drop." - Traditional  "May you be poor in misfortune and rich in blessings,   slow to make enemies,   quick to make friends,   and rich or poor,   slow or quick,   as happy as the Year is long."  - Variation -  "May you be poor in misfortune,    Rich in blessings,    Slow to make enemies, And quick to make friends.    But rich or poor, quick or slow,    May you know nothing but happiness From this day forward." - Traditional  "May your corn stand high as yourself,   your fields grow bigger with rain,   and the Mare know its own way home on Christmas night." - Traditional Irish  "I know I've wished you this BEFORE,    But every year I wish it MORE, A Merry Christmas" - Christmas Toast   "May you never forget what is worth remembering,    or remember what is best forgotten." - Traditional  "Here's wishing you more happiness Than all my words can tell,    Not just alone for Christmas,    But for all the year as well." - Traditional Christmas Toast   "I have always thought of Christmas as a good time;     a kind,  forgiving,  generous,  pleasant time;     a time when men and women seem by one consent  ...  to open their hearts freely;    and so I say 'God bless Christmas'." - Charles Dickens  "We've holidays and holy days,   and memory days galore;     And when we've toasted every one,   I offer just one more.     So let us lift our glasses high, and drink a silent toast.    The day, deep buried in each heart,   that each one loves the most." - Unknown  "Then let us be merry and taste the good cheer,    And remember old Christmas comes but once a year." - Unknown Christmas Toast   "In the year ahead,    May we treat our friends with kindness and our enemies with generosity." - Traditional  "Should auld acquaintance be forgot,    And never brought to min',    Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne.    For auld lang syne, my dear,    For auld lang syne,    We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,    For auld lang syne.     And here's a hand,   my trusty fierce,    And gie's a hand o' thine,    And we'll tak' a right guid willie-waught,    For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne,   my dear,   For auld lang syne,     We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,    For auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint stowpt,   And surely I'll be mine,    And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,   For auld lang syne.     For auld lang syne, my dear,    For auld lang syne,     We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,   For auld lang syne." - Robert Burns- Alternative -  "Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís.     Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit!" - Translation - "May we be alive at this time next year.     A prosperous New Year!" - Traditional Irish 

    QUOTES           ...     "In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want."     ...     "May the best of this year be the worst of next."     ...     "Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got." - William Feather     ...     " To a firm hand for a flighty beast an old dog for the long road a kettle of fish for Friday and a welcome for the New Year."     ...     "May the warmth of our affections survive the frosts of age."     ...     "May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms. If you must steal, steal kisses. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends."     ...     "May neighbours respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you."     ...     "May we kiss whom we please, And please whom we kiss."     ...     "May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far."     ...     "One bottle for four of us, Thank God there's no more of us!"     ...     "May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door."     ...     "May we kiss whom we please, And please whom we kiss."     ...     "When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!"     ...     "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, With the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, Than the foam at the top of the stein."     ...     "Oh, here's to other meetings, And merry greetings then; And here's to those we've drunk with, But never can again."     ...     "May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!"     ...     "Four blessings upon you..Older whiskey..Younger women..Faster horses..More money"     ...     "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, With the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, Than the foam at the top of the stein."     ...     "Always remember to forget, The things that made you sad. But never forget to remember, The things that made you glad."     ...     "Here’s to us that are here, to you that are there, and the rest of us everywhere." - Rudyard Kipling (December 30th, 1865 – January 18th 1936), an English poet.     ...     "Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain. Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies Come to life and fade away. What care I how time advances; I am drinking ale today." - Edgar Allen Poe     ...     "May you be found dead at the ripe 'ol age of 99, shot by a jealous spouse."     ...     "May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten."     ...     "Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate." - George Gordon "Lord" Byron (Said To Thomas Moore). George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.     ...     "May we all come to peaceful ends, And leave our debts unto our friends."     ...     "Turn out more ale, turn up the light, I will not go to bed tonight. Of all the foes that man should dread The first I have had both old and young, And ale we drank and songs we sung. Enough you know when this is said, That, one and all—they died in bed!" - Charles Henry Webb, Charles Henry Webb (January 24th, 1834 in Rouse's Point, New York - May 24th, 1905), an American poet and author. Toast is from Dum Vivimus Vigilamus.     ...     "And fill them high with generous juice, As generous as your mind, And pledge me in this generous toast— The whole of human kind!" - Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) Also Known as Scotland's favourite son and the Ploughman Poet.     ...     "May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace...May your troubles grow less as your blessings increase!"     ...     "Work like you don’t need the money, dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening, and live every day as if it were your last."     ...     "Here's to women's kisses, and to whiskey, amber clear; Not as sweet as a woman's kiss, but a darn sight more sincere!"     ...     "Drink with impunity --Or anyone who happens to invite you!" - W.C. Fields. William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880– Decemberember 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.     ...     "Here’s to our guest Don’t let him rest. But keep his elbow bending. ‘Tis time to drink Full time to think Tomorrow, when you’re mending." - Anonymous     ...     "A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May your heart be light and happy, May your smile be big and wide, And may your pockets always have a coin or two inside!"     ...     Phil Connors speach Take 1- from Groundhog Day (the Movie) "Once a year, the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny Pennsylvania hamlet... to watch a master at work. The master?    Punxsutawney Phil...the world's most famous weatherman, the groundhog...  who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring.    The question we have to ask ourselves today is,    Does Phil feel lucky?"    Then it's the same old schtick. The guy with the big stick raps on the door. They pull the little rat out.    They talk to him.    The rat talks back and then they tell us what's gonna happen.    Isn't he cute?    You like your guys with prominent upper teeth?    This February at : and seconds... Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers...    prognosticator of prognosticators...    emerged reluctantly, but alertly... in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania... and stated in Groundhogese...    "I definitely see a shadow. "     Sorry, folks.     Six more weeks of winter."     ...     Phil Connors speach take 2.."It's Groundhog Day again.     That must mean we're at Gobbler's Knob waiting for the forecast...    from the world's most famous groundhog weatherman...    Punxsutawney Phil...    who is just about to tell us how much more winter we can expect."     ...     Phil Connors speach take 3 "This is pitiful.    A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. What a hype.     Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town.     They used to pull the hog out and eat it! You're hypocrites, all of you!     You got a problem with what I'm saying?     Untie your tongue, and you come out here and talk.     Am I upsetting you, Princess?     You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil.     I'll give you a winter prediction.    It's gonna be cold...   it's gonna be gray...    and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."     ...     Phil Connors speach take 4 "Once again, the eyes of the nation have turned here to this...     tiny village in western Pennsylvania.     There is no way that this winter...   is ever going to end...   as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow.     I don't see any other way out.     He has to be stopped.     I have to stop him."     ...     Phil Connors speach take 5 "When Chekhov saw the long winter...   he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope.     Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life.     But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney...   and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts...     I couldn't imagine a better fate...   than a long and lustrous winter.     From Punxsutawney, it's Phil Connors.     So long."     ...     "May we never have friends who, like shadows, follow us in sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day."     ...     "Success to the lover, honor to the brave,Health to the sick, and freedom to the slave." - Traditional     ...     "May I see you grey and combing your grandchildren’s hair." - Traditional     ...     "There are many good reasons for drinking, And one has just entered my head, If a man doesn't drink when he's living, How the hell can he drink when he's dead!"     ...     "A glass in the hand’s worth two on the shelf, Tipple it down and refresh yourself!" - Anonymous     ...     "Here's to ( -person's name- ), (s)he's true blue, (S)he's a wanker through & through, (S)he's a bastard so they say, Tried to get to heaven but (s)he went the other way. Drink it down, down, down."     ...     "Here's to you, you're true blue, A wanker through & through, You're a bastard so they say, Tried to get to heaven but you went the other way. Drink it down, down, down."     ...     "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night."     ...     "Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers, Drink to the fathers and to their brothers; Toast their dear healths as long as you’re able, And dream of their charms while under the table." - Anonymous     ...     "The Frenchman loves his native wine,  The German loves his beer. The Englishman loves his 'alf and 'alf, Because it brings good cheer.   The Irishman loves his whiskey straight, Because it gives him dizziness.   The American has no choice at all, So he drinks the whole damn business."     ...     "Though life is now pleasant and sweet to the sense We'll be damnably mouldy a hundred years hence."     ...     "May we get what we want, May we get what we need, But may we never get what we deserve." -Cedric     ...     "May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather." - Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church     ...     "Here's to the dove that flies above and never sheds a feather If I can't be with the one I love I'll be drinkin' this stuff forever"     ...     "Champagne costs too much,  Whiskey's too rough,  Vodka puts big mouths in gear.  This little refrain Should help to explain Why it's better to order a beer!"     ...     "Always remember to forget The things that made you sad.    But never forget to remember The things that made you glad..     Always remember to forget The friends that proved untrue.     But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you..     Always remember to forget The troubles that passed away.     But never forget to remember The blessings that come each day." - Traditional Irish    ...     "Gentlemen, start your livers!" - Traditional Racing Toast     ...     "May our faults be written on the seashore, and every good action prove a wave to wash them out."     ...     "Here's to health, peace and prosperity.     May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends."     ...     "Here's to me in my sober mood,  When I ramble, sit, and think.     Here's to me in my drunken mood,  When I gamble, sin, and drink.     Here's to when my days are over,   And from this world I pass, I hope they bury me upside down,     So the world can kiss my ass!"     ...     "I drink to Woman for each of them who makes a fool out of a man,    there is another who makes a man out of a fool."     ...     "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       ...     "May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up." - Traditional Irish     ...     "I used to know a clever toast,     But now I cannot think of it,    So fill your glass to anything,    And damn your souls, I’ll drink to it!"     ...     "The horse and mule live thirty years And never knows of wines and beers.     The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye.     The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done.     The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin.     The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.     But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten.     And some of us...though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two."     ...     "Drinking will make a man quaff,   Quaffing will make a man sing,   Singing will make a man laugh,    And laughing long life doth bring." - Thomas D'Urfey (Tom Durfey) (1653 – February 26, 1723) was an English writer.     ...     "Here's to your health,   Fitness and tone.     I've drank to your health so many times,   I've ruined my god damned own."     ...     "Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day,     Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead."     ...     "May you never steal, lie or cheat.    But if you have to steal,   then steal away my sorrows.    If you have to lie,  then lie with me all the nights of our life.     If you have to cheat,   then cheat death because I don't want to live a day without you." - Traditional Irish Toast      ...     "May you live as long as you want,    And never want as long as you live." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,     And may trouble avoid you wherever you go." - Traditional Irish     ...     "God then made man.    The Italian for their beauty.    The French for fine food.    The Swedes for intelligence.    The Jew for religion.    And on and on until he looked at what he had created and said,     'This is all very fine but no one is having fun.     I guess I'll have to make me an Irishman.'"     ...     "Always remember to forget The friends that proved untrue.     But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May you have warm words on a cold evening,   a full moon on a dark night,    and a smooth road all the way to your door." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May the road rise to meet you.     May the wind be always at your back.     May the sun shine warm upon your face.     And rains fall soft upon your fields.     And until we meet again,    May God hold you in the hollow of His hand." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here’s hoping that you live forever  And mine is the last voice you hear." - Willard Scott, (born Marchch 7, 1934), from A Gentleman’s Guide to Toasting.     ...     "When money's tight and hard to get and your horse is also RAN,     When all you have is a heap of debt a pint of plain is your only MAN." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here's to Hell!     May the stay there,   Be as much fun as the way there!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold...     And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold." - Traditional Irish     ...     "An Irishman is never drunk as long as He can hold onto one blade of grass and not Fall off the face of the earth."     ...     "Health and a long life to you.     Land without rent to you.     A child every year to you.     And if you can't go to heaven,    May you at least die in Ireland." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Health and life to you;     The mate of your choice to you;     Land without rent to you,     And death in Eirinn." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May the winds of fortune sail you,     May you sail a gentle sea.     May it always be the other guy who says,    'this drink's on me.'" - Traditional Irish     ...     "May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load.     May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road...     And may all your friends remember all the favours you are owed!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "Tis my will when I die,   not a tear shall be shed.     No Hie Jacet be graved on my stone,    But pour o'er my coffin a bottle of red,    And write that His Drinking is Done."     ...     "May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past." - Traditional Irish     ...     "The anniversary of St. Patrick's day,   and may the Shamrock be green forever." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Saint Patrick was a gentleman,   Who through strategy and stealth,   Drove all the snakes from Ireland, Here’s a toasting to his health.    But not too many toastings Lest you lose yourself and then Forget the good Saint Patrick And see all those snakes again.   'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'   Happy St. Patrick's Day!"     ...     "May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold —    And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold." - Traditional Irish     ...     "If you’re enough lucky to be Irish...  You’re lucky enough!"     ...     "May God grant you many years to live,   for sure he must be knowing, the earth has angels all too few and heaven is overflowing."     ...     "May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks May your heart be as light as a song May each day bring you bright Happy hours that stay with you all the year long." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head.     May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,     May good luck pursue you each morning and night." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace...    May your troubles grow less as your blessings increase!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,     May good luck pursue you each morning and night." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Stin Eyiassou!" (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh)    Greek)      "To Your Health!" - Traditional Greek     ...     "Why, if 'tis dancing you would be,    There's brisker pipes than poetry.     Say, for what were hop-yards meant,     Or why was Burton built on Trent?     Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse,    And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.     Ale, man,   ale's the stuff to drink,   For fellows whom it hurts to think:    Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not." - A.E. Housmann (born Alfred Edward Housman Marchch 26th, 1859 – April 30th 1936), an English classical scholar and poet.     ...     "Here's to beauty, wit, and beer,     and to a full stomach, a full purse, and a light heart." - Traditional Irish     ...     "A full belly,    a heavy purse,    and a light heart." - Traditional Irish     ...     "In heaven there is no beer...    That's why we drink ours here."     ...     "May the luck of the Irish Lead to happiest heights,   And the highway you travel Be lined with green lights.     Wherever you go and whatever you do,    May the luck of the Irish be there with you." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May the sun shine all day long,   everything go right,   and nothing wrong.     May those you love bring love back to you,   and may all the wishes you wish come true!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "May the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be towards us." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Roses are red Violets are blue,     I've got Alzheimer's Cheese on toast"     ...     "Vashi"   Baluchi - Iran      ...     “Of all my favorite things to do,    The utmost is to have a brew.     My love grows for my foamy friend,   With each thirst-quenching elbow bend.     Beer’s so frothy,  smooth and cold    – It’s paradise – pure liquid gold.     Yes, beer means many things to me…    That’s all for now, I gotta pee!”     ...     "There are good ships,   and there are wood ships,     The ships that sail the sea.     But the best ships, are friendships,   And may they always be."     ...     "May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too,    And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May you live as long as you like,     And have all you like as long as you live."     ...     “May you live as long as you want,    And never want as long as you live”     ...     "May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here’s to fine wine, women, and SONG.     And here’s to workdays that aren’t too LONG.     Here’s to shoes that always FIT.     And here’s to you, you silly SH*T!"     ...     "With small beer, good ale and wine,    O ye gods!     How I shall dine!"     ...     "Let No Man Thirst For Lack Of Real Ale."     ...     "A generation of children on the children of your children."     ...     "Thirst is a shameless disease so here's to a shameful cure."     ...     "May you always have walls for the winds,   a roof for the rain,   tea beside the fire,   laughter to cheer you,   those you love near you,    and all your heart might desire." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here's to a temperance supper,   With water in glasses tall,    And coffee and tea to end with  --   And me not there at all!"     ...     "I'd rather have a dinner while I'm living,    than a monument when I'm dead,    for the dinner will be on my friends,    while the monument would be on me."     ...     "So that our children will have wealthy parents."     ...     "May we never be in need of a friend to cheer us,    or a bottle to cheer him."     ...     "I'll drink to the Girls who do!     I'll drink to the Girls who don't!     But...I won't drink to Girls Who say they will and won't!"     ...     "I wish you health,    I wish you well,    and happiness galore.     I wish you luck for you and friends;    what could I wish you more?      May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as its foam.     And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam."     ...     "On with the dance!    let joy be unconfined;   No sleep till morn,   when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." - Lord Byron (January 22nd, 1788 – April 19th, 1824), an English poet.     ...     "Laugh at all things,   Great and small things,    Sick and well,    at sea or shore;    While we are quaffing,    Let’s have laughing,    Who the devil cares for more?" - Lord Byron     ...     "Here's to cheating, stealing, fighting, and smoking.     If you cheat, cheat death.     If you steal, steal a woman's heart.     If you fight, fight for a brother.     And If you smoke, then smoke with me!!"     ...     "So live that when you come to die, even the undertaker will feel sorry for you." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known as Mark Twain, he was an American author and humorist.     ...     "The devil invented Whiskey to make the Irish poor."     ...     "May our house always be too small to hold all our friends."     ...     "May you...  Work like you don't need the money,    love like you've never been hurt,    dance like no-one is watching,    screw like it's being filmed,    and drink like a true Irishman."     ...     "Here's to my mother-in-law,    who still calls me a son...    But I never let her finish the sentence."     ...     "Here's to the women that I've loved and all the ones I've kissed.     As for regrets, I just have one;   that's all the ones I've missed."     ...       "Oh, women's faults are many,    us men have only two:     Every single thing we say,   and everything we do."     ...     "To Death,    the jolly old bouncer,    now Our glasses let's be clinking;    If he hadn't put other out,    I trow,  To-night we'd not be drinking." - Oliver Herford (1863–1935) a British born American writer, artist and illustrator.     ...     "To the lamp of love:    may it burn brightest in the darkest hours    and never flicker in the winds of trial." - Unknown     ...     "Here's To Friends And Heroes,     They say in life we need friends and heros,     As I look out upon all of you today,     I raise my glass and say to you  ....   I am glad I can be both."     ...     "Wasser ist billig,  rein und gut;   Doch verdunt es unser blut." - translation - "Water is cheap,    pure and good   ...   but it thins the blood." - Dutch.     ...     "Let all thy joys be as the month of May,    And all thy days be as a Mariage day." - Francis Quarles     ...     'Here's to the girl,   with eyes of brown,     Who cheers you up,   when you're feeling down,     Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,    Who has a nice smile,    and a heart so true,     Here's to the girl, with eyes of green,   Whose silky hair, is the fairest I've seen,    But, no matter their hue,    Yours are best,    know why?    'cause yours laugh when mine laugh     and cry, when mine cry.' - Variation -"Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,    Whose hear is kind and love is true;     Here's to the girl with eyes of brown,   Who's spirit proud you cannot down;     Here's to the girl with eyes of gray, Whose sunny smile drives care away,      Whate'er the hue of their eyes may be"     ...     "Here's to you and here's to me,    Friends may we always be!     But, if by chance we disagree,   Up yours!    Here's to me!"     ...     "My grandmother is over 80 And still doesn't need glasses.      Drinks right out of the bottle."     ...     "Dance as if no one were watching,    Sing as if no one were listening,     And live every day as if it were your last."     ...     "May your joys be as deep as the ocean    And your misfortunes as light as the foam."     ...     "Here's to all of the women who have used me and abused me    ...    And may they continue to do so!" - Unknown      ...     "Here's to your health   -   a long life and an easy death to you."     ...     "To friends:     as long as we are able To lift our glasses from the table." - Anonymous     ...     "May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.      May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.      May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.     And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here's to the wonderful days of my life when I slept in the arms of another man's wife     ...      My mother!" - A good Mother's Day toast     ...     "But if at church they give some ale And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale      We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day     Nor ever once from the church to stray."     ...     "Here’s to the bottle which holds a store Of imprisoned joy and laughter!       Here’s to this bottle, Many more bottles,      And others to follow after." - Anonymous     ...     "Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright;      Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white;      Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer;     Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?"  - 19th Century Toast     ...     "May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too,     And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you."  -  Traditional Irish     ...     "Here's to God's first thought,   Man!      Here's to God's second thought,   Woman!     Seconds thoughts are always best,     So here's to Woman!"  -  Unknown     ...     "To your good health, old friend,     may you live for a thousand years,     and I be there to count them." -  Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 Marchch 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer     ...     "To our host,    An excellent man.     For is not a man Fairly judged by the Company he keeps?"  -  Anonymous     ...     "Here's to our enemies  ....   Laying face down,    cold in their graves" -  A good Armed Forces Day toast     ...     "May your joys be as bright as the morning;    And your sorrow but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love."     ...     "Here's to your health!     You make age curious,    Time furious,    and all of us envious."     ...     "Old wood to burn,   Old books to read,   Old wine to drink,   Old friends to trust."     ...     "For every wound, a balm.     For every sorrow, cheer.     For every storm, a calm.     For every thirst, a beer" - Unknown     ...     "A man takes a drink;     the drink takes a drink;     the drink takes the man."     ...     "To friendship:    May differences of opinion cement it." - Anonymous     ...     "A day for toil,    an hour for sport,     But for a friend life is too short."  -  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25th, 1803 - April 27th, 1882), an American poet.     ...     "Party with laughter and beer,    And hug everyone who is dear.     For you can’t be sure,    As you grow more mature,    You’ll be able to party next year" - Traditional     ...     "Here's to the Army and the Navy,    And to the battles they've won.     Here's to America's colors,    The colors that never run." - A good Memorial Day toast     ...     "Here's to Them..    That wish us well,    All the rest.. Can Go to Hell.     Here's To the Men,    Here's To Health,    Here's health and PROSPERITY,    to you and your POSTERITY,     and to them that don't drink with SINCERITY,    may they be damned for all ETERNITY." - Unknown     ...     "A toast to love and laughter and happily ever after" - Unknown     ...     "You foam within our glasses,    you lusty golden brew,    Whoever imbibes takes fire from you.     The young and the old sing your praises,     Here's to beer, Here's to cheer, Here's to beer!" - From the opera, "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana, first performed May 30th, 1866 at at the Provisional Theatre, Prague.     ...     "That a doctor might never earn a dollar out of you,     And that your heart may never give out." - Traditional     ...     "May we be happy and our enemies know it." - Anonymous     ...     "In Vino Veritas,    In Cervesio Felicitas"  - translation -  "In wine there is wisdom,    In beer there is joy." - Traditional Italian     ...     "While we live,    Let’s live." - Traditional Italian     ...     "God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,     The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,     And the eyesight to tell the difference" - Traditional     ...     "The health of the salmon to you   ...    a long life,    a full heart    and a wet mouth!" - Anonymous     ...     "God bless the corners of this house and all the lintel blessed.    And bless the hearth and bless the board and bless each place of rest.    And bless each door that opens wide to strangers as to kin.    And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in and bless the rooftree overhead.    And every sturdy wall.    The peace of man, the peace of God.    The peace or love on all."  -  Unknown     ...     "Here’s to cheating, stealing, fighting, and drinking.     If you cheat, may you cheat death.     If you steal, may you steal a woman’s heart.     If you fight, may you fight for a brother.     And if you drink, may you drink with me."  - Traditional Irish     ...     "Starkle starkle little twink,    who the hell you are I think,     I’m not under what you call,     the alcofluence of alcohol,     I’m just a little slort of sheep,     I’m not drunk like tinkle peep,    I don’t know who is me yet,   but the drunker I stand here   the longer I get,     Just give me one more drink to fill me cup,     ‘cuz I got all day sober to Sunday up."  - Traditional     ...     "The German likes his BEER,     The Pommy likes his half and half  Because it brings good CHEER,    The Scotsman likes his whisky And the Irishman likes his hot The Aussie has no national drink So he drinks the bloody lot." - Traditional     ...     "May we breakfast with Health,    dine with Friendship,    crack a bottle with Mirth,    and sup with the goddess Contentment." - Anonymous     ...     "May the saddest day of your future    be no worse Than the happiest day of your past." - Traditional Irish     ...     "To the old,    long life and treasure;     To the young,   all health and pleasure;     To the fair,  their face,  With eternal grace;     And the rest,    to be loved at leisure." - Ben Jonson (June 11th, 1572 – August 6th, 1637), an English Renaissance dramatist.     ...     "May the roof above you never fall in,     And those gathered beneath it never fall out." - Traditional Irish     ...     "A statesman is an easy man,   he tells his lies by rote.     A journalist invents his lies,    and rams them down your throat.     So stay at home and drink your beer    and let the neighbors vote." - William Butler Yeats (June 13th, 1865 – January 28th, 1939),an Irish poet.     ...     "Here’s to the man who drinks strong ale,    and goes to bed quite mellow.      Lives as he ought to live,    and dies a jolly good fellow." - Unknown     ...     "Here's health to your enemies' enemies!" - Traditional     ...     "A little health,    a little wealth,    A little house and freedom.     With some few friends for certain ends,    But little cause to need ‘em." -  Anonymous     ...     "Here’s to those who love us,    And here’s to those who don’t,    A smile for those who are willing to,    And a tear for those who won’t."  - Anonymous     ...     "To the thirst that is yet to come." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here’s to the maiden of bashful FIFTEEN;     Here’s to the widow of fifty;     Here’s to the flaunting extravagant QUEEN;     And here’s to the housewife that’s thirty.     Let the toast PASS...    Drink to the LASS...   I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the GLASS.     For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be SLIM,    Young or ancient,    I care not a FEATHER;    So fill a pint bumber quite up to the BRIM,    And let us e’en toast ‘em TOGETHER.     Let the toast PASS...   Drink to the LASS...   I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the GLASS."  - Traditional     ...     "To Alcohol...    a liquid good for preserving almost anything   except secrets." - Gideon Wurdz, from the foolish dictionary.     ...     "Here's to the Ladies,    We admire them for their beauty,    respect them for their intelligence,    adore them for their virtue,    and love them,    because we can't help it." -Anonymous     ...     "It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow   than to spend tonight like there's no money!" - Unknown     ...     "Here's to us,   And those like us.     Damn few and they're probably dead.    Cheers!" - Anonymous     ...     "Here's to a guy who is never blue,    Here's to a buddy who is ever true,   Here's to a pal, no matter what the load,    Who never Declines,    just one for the road." - Unknown     ...     "A drink,   my lass,   in a deep clear glass,    Just properly tempered by ice,    And here’s to the lips mine have kissed,    And if they were thine,   here’s twice."  - Anonymous     ...     "Daylight comes through the drunkard's roof the fastest." - Unknown     ...     "Here's to the perfect girl,    I couldn't ask for more.    She's deaf 'n dumb,   oversexed,    and owns a liquor store." - Anonymous     ...     "Here's to wives and sweethearts!     May they never meet." - Anonymous     ...     "May your night be like a kitchen table  …  four legs and no drawers." - Unknown     ...     "To times weve had.   Some were happy,   some were sad.    Memories, our partners in crime.   Throwing up a thousand times." - Unknown     ...     "May the winds of fortune sail you,  May you sail a gentle sea.   May it always be the other guy who says, 'this drink’s on me.'"  - Traditional     ...     "Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone,   and still drink more;    But drunk is he who prostrate lies,  Without the power to drink or rise."  - Variation -  "He is not drunk who from the floor Can rise alone and drink some more;    But he is drunk who prostrate liles, And cannot drink or cannot rise" - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to those that wish us well,    all the rest can go to hell." - Anonymous.     ...     "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, A good fourth of July Toast     ...     "Here’s to love.    It doesn’t make the world go ’round,   It’s what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones     ...     "May the friends of our youth   be the companions of our old age." - Anonymous     ...     "May all your ups and downs be under the blankets." - Unknown     ...     "None so deaf as those who will not hear.     None so blind as those who will not see.     But I’ll wager none so deaf nor so blind that he Sees not   nor hears me say come drink this beer." - W.L. Hasoldt     ...     "Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker."     ...     "Down your throat,   Into your bladder,    Which end it comes out,   Does it really matter?" - Unknown     ...     "We drink to your coffin.   May it be built from the wood of a hundred year old oak tree   that I shall plant tomorrow." - Variation - "May your coffin have six handles of finest silver!     May your coffin be carried by six fair young maids!     And may your coffin be made of finest wood from a 100-year-old tree that I'll go plant tomorrow!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "Come,   sit we by the fireside And roundly drink we hear,    Till that we see our cheeks all dyed,    And noses tanned with beer." - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to the four hinges of Friendship   ...   Swearing, Lying, Stealing, and Drinking.    When you swear, swear by your country.    When you lie, lie for a pretty woman.    When you steal, steal away from bad company.    And when you drink, drink with me." - Anonymous     ...     "Here's to France,   the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world,    A Votre Sante!" - A good Bastille Day quote (July 14th)     ...     "For every wound,  a balm.     For every sorrow,  cheer.     For every storm,  a calm.     For every thirst, a beer." - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to the heart that fills as the bottle empties." - Anonymous     ...     "Make new friends,    but keep the old;     These are silver,    those are gold.     New-made friends,    like new wine,    Age will mellow and refine.     Brow may furrow,   hair turn gray,   But friendship never knows Decay."  - Art Linkletter (July 17th, 1912 - May 26th, 2010), a Canadian radio and television personality.     ...     "From man's sweat and God's love,    beer came into the world" - Saint Arnold, recognized by the Catholic Church as the Patron Saint of Hop-Pickers and Belgian Brewers. His miracle was a Mug that never ran dry and satisfied thirsty crowd      ...     "That the tap may be open when it rusts" - Traditional     ...     "I once knew a girl who lived on a hill,    What she won't do her sister will   ...   So here's to her sister" - Anonymous     ...     "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." - Traditional     ...     "The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking." - Euripides     ...     "Here’s to eternity,    may we spend it in as good company as this night finds us." - Anonymous     ...     "A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig." - Unknown     ...     "Now I, friend,   drink to you, friend,    As my friend drank to me,    And I, friend, charge to you, friend,    As my friend charge me,     That you, friend, drink to your friend,   As my friend drank to me;     And the more we drink together, friend,    The merrier we will be!" - Anonymous     ...     "Let no man thirst for lack of Real Ale." - Unknown     ...     "May the path to hell grow green with grass for want of use!"     ...     "Here's to the women with faces so fair,     Framed in a wreath of beautiful hair,     Pretty red lips as soft as a rose,     How many have kissed them  God only knows." - Unknown     ...     "May your last check bounce before you die." - Unknown     ...     "Here's to King Solomon,    ruler and sage,    the wisest of men in history's page.     He had wives by the thousand,    and thought it was fun   ...   Here's hoping we know how to handle just one." - Unknown     ...     “So here’s to all those summer nights when my feet hit the sand,    and the waves break my fall,    and all my friends around me out number the stars.” - Unknown     ...     "The bubble winked at me and said,    'You'll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'"  - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer     ...     "Love,    There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,    and the love of a staunch true man.    There's the love of a baby that's unafraid,    all have existed since time began.     But the most wonderful love,   the Love of Loves,   even greater than the love for Mother,    is the intimate,    tenderest, passionate love   ...   of one dead drunk for another." - Variation - "The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,    The love of a staunch true man,    The love of a baby unafraid,    Has existed since time began;   But the greatest love, the love of loves,   Even greater than that of a mother,   Is the tender, passionate,   infinite love Of one drunken bum for another."     ...     “Here’s to us girls with the high-heeled shoes …  We spend your money and drink your booze … We may have no cherry,  but that’s no sin … We still have the box that it came in!” - Unknown     ...     “Amazing friends;   summer nights;   Chocolate ice cream;   mud slide fights;   Half the summer is gone already.   So lets spend the rest of it;   slow and steady.” - Unknown     ...     "Here's to being single  ...  Drinking doubles  ...  And seeing triple!" - Unknown     ...     "To the lamp of love  ...  may it burn brightest in the darkest hours  and never flicker in the winds of trial." - Unknown     ...     "May your troubles be less and your blessings be more,    and nothing but happiness come through the door." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Friendship's the wine of life.   Let's drink of it and to it." - Unknown     ...     "For every wound,  a balm.    For every sorrow,  cheer.    For every storm,  a calm.    For every thirst, a beer." - Traditional     ...     “Here’s to the nights where the sand is your seat,    the waves kiss your feet,    your friends outnumber the stars,    and even the chilliest of nights are still warmer than the cold one in your hand.” - Unknown     ...     "To Mom's cooking:    May my wife never find out how bad it really was." - Unknown     ...     "Here's to the girls of the American shore,    I love but one,    I love no more;    Since she's not here to drink her part,   I drink her share with all my heart." - Unknown     ...     "Here's Champagne to our real friends   and real pain to our sham friends." - Unknown     ...     "Don't worry about the future,   The present is all thou hast,   The future will soon be present,   And the present will soon be past." - Unknown     ...     “May you be half an hour in heaven,   Before the devil knows your dead." - Traditional Irish Variation      "Here's hoping you're in Heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you're dead." - Irish Toast "Here's to bread, eggs and cinnamon." - French Toast     ...     "Here's to all of your friends   ...   they know you far too well,    and they still like you." - Unknown     ...     "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy   and wealthy   and dead." - James Thurber     ...     "My heart is as full as my glass,    When I drink to you,    old friend!" - Unknown     ...     "Here's a toast to all who are here,    no matter where you're from.     May the best day you have seen,    be worse than your worse to come." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Here’s to our guest   ...   Don’t let him rest.     But keep his elbow bending.     ‘Tis time to drink   ...   Full time to think Tomorrow   ...   when you’re mending." - Unknown     ...     "Then here's to the heartening wassail,    Wherever good fellows are found;    Be its master instead of its vassal,    And order the glasses around." - Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19th, 1902 – May 19th, 1971), an American poet known for light verse.     ...     "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,    With the sparkle of beer and wine;    May its sentiment always be deeper,   my friends,    Than the foam at the top of the stein." - Traditional     ...     "The man that isn’t jolly after drinking,   Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking." - Euripides     ...     "I drink Martinis.   Two at the very most.    Three I'm under the table.    Four I'm under the host" - Dorothy Parker (August 22nd, 1893 – June 7th, 1967), an American poet.     ...     "Drink,  and dance,  and laugh,  and lie,   Love the reeling midnight through,   For tomorrow we shall die!    But, alas, we never do." - Dorothy Parker     ...     "May the most you wish for be the least you get." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Come, sit we by the fireside And roundly drink we hear,   Till that we see our cheeks all dyed And noses tanned with beer." - Robert Herrick (baptized August 24th, 1591 – buried October 15th, 1674), an English poet.     ...     "Here's to the wine we love to drink,    and the food we like to eat.     Here's to our wives and sweethearts,    let's pray they never meet.     Here's champagne for our real friends,  And real pain for our sham friends.     And when this life is over,    may all of us find peace." - Traditional     ...     "Times are hard, And wages are small,     So drink more beer,     And f**k em all." - Unknown     ...     "May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow.    The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow." - Unknown     ...     "Solange man nüchtern ist,   gefällt das Schlechte.     Wie man getrunken hat,    weiss man das Rechte." - Translation - "When one is sober,    the bad can appeal.     When one has taken a drink,    One knows what's real." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28th, 1749 - Marchch 22nd, 1832), a German writer.     ...     "Here's health in homely rhyme To our oldest classmate,    Father Time;     May our last survivor live to be As bold and wise   and as thorough as he!" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American professor and author     ...     "To eternity,    may it last forever!" - Unknown     ...     "To all the days here and after.    May they be filled with fond memories,  happiness,  and laughter." - Traditional     ...     "May the hinges of friendship never rust,    or the wings of love lose a feather" - Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), a clergyman and Dean of Edinburgh.     ...     "Here's to a sweetheart,    a bottle,   and a friend.     The first beautiful,   the second full,   the last ever faithful." - Traditional     ...     "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine." - Unknown     ...     "May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmothers teeth." - Unknown     ...     "Here's to women,   beer,   and song,   may none of them be flat." - Unknown     ...     "May you never go to hell But always be on your way." - Traditional Yiddish     ...     "Here’s to health and PROSPERITY,    To you and all your POSTERITY,    And them that doesn’t drink with SINCERITY,    That they may be damned for all ETERNITY!" - Unknown     ...     "Before you call for one for the road   be sure you know the road." - Unknown     ...     "Accept that some days you're the pigeon   And some days you're the statue." - Unknown     ...     "Bottoms up,  Tops down.    Wear a smile,   Not a frown." - Unknown     ...     "May we live to learn well,    And learn to live well." - Unknown     ...     "To the holidays   ...   all 365 of them." - Anonymous     ...     "When life''s on the line!  -  We''re the first to respond.     Play it safe!  -  You may be my job one day.     God Bless, to my Brothers that were lost in 9/11"   - FDNY toast     ...     "Be one who drinks the finest of ales.     Every day without fail.     Even when you have drank enough,   Remember that ale is wonderful stuff." - Unknown     ...     "Some friends wish you happiness,   and others wish you wealth...     But I wish you the best of all...   contentment blessed with health!" - Unknown     ...     "Happiness being a dessert so sweet,   May life give you more than you can ever eat" - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to hard work and fun filled vacations.    Great workmates and high expectations.     Here’s to all your success and all the raised glasses.    So, this toast is for you, cuz you all are bad asses!" - Anonymous     ...     "We'll think of all the friends we know    And drink to all worth drinking to." - Unknown     ...     "May you live as long as you want,   And never want as long as you live." - Traditional Irish, In celebration of St. Patrick's day in the Summer.     ...     "To Alcohol   ...   a liquid good for preserving almost anything except secrets." - Gideon Wordz     ...     "I'll drink to the girls that will,    I'll drink to the girls that won't,    But I won't drink to the girls that say they will,    And then I find out they don't." - Unknown     ...     "Love to one,    friendship to many,    and good will to all." - Traditional     ...     "May you both grow old on one pillow." - Traditional Armenian     ...     "May you live as long as you are fit to live,    but no longer!    or,    may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live,  than after!" -  Philip Dormer Stanhope (September 22nd, 1694 - March 24th, 1773), the 4th Earl of Chesterfield and British statesman.     ...     "Here's champagne to your real friends,    And real pain to your sham friends!" - Unknown     ...     "May we have more and more friends,    and need them less and less." - Traditional     ...     "Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer,    and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." -  Marchk Hawkins, in the New York Times, September 25, 1977     ...     "The truth comes out when the spirit goes in." - Unknown     ...     "May our house always be too small to hold all our friends." - Myrtle Reed (September 27th, 1874 – August 17th , 1911), an American author and poet.     ...     "He that buys land buys many stones.    He that buys flesh buys many bones.    He that buys eggs buys many shells,    But he that buys good beer buys nothing else." - Traditional     ...     "Here's to good old whiskey   ...    may those who use it never abuse it." - Unknown     ...     "He who goes to bed,   and goes to bed sober,   Falls as the leaves do,   and dies in October.     But he who goes to bed,   and does so mellow, shall live as he ought to,   and dies a good fellow." - Traditional     ...     "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 Marchx (born Julius Henry Marchx - October 2nd, 1890 - August 19th, 1977), an American comedian.     ...     "Here's to a long life and a merry one.     A quick death and an easy one.     A pretty girl and an honest one.     A cold pint-- and another one!" - Variation - "Here's to a long life and a merry one,    A quick death and an easy one,    A pretty wife and a true one,   A cold drink and another one."- Traditional Irish     ...     "A toast to bread,    as without bread,    we'd have no toast" - Unknown     ...     "Das Leben ist bezaubernd,    man muss es nur durch die richtige Brille sehen." - Translation - "Life is wonderful,    you just need to see it through the right glasses." - Traditional German     ...     "Here's to our native land!    May we live for it,   and die in it." - Traditional     ...     "When wine enlivens the heart   may friendship surround the table." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American physician (also see August 29th)     ...     "Make we make the most of what we may yet spend,   Before we too into the Dust descend;     Dust into Dust,   and under Dust to lie,   Sans wine,   sans song,   sans singer,   and sans end." - Omar Khayyam     ...     "May your Guardian Angel be at your side to pick you up off the floor    and hand ya another cold one." - Unknown     ...     "Health to you,    and wealth to you,    and the best that life can give to you!" - Traditional     ...     "Re-live it as often as you like.     It is free and it never wears out.     It’s the memory we’re making today,    right now." - Unknown     ...     "Better a well known drunkard   Than an anonymous alcoholic." - Traditional Spanish     ...     "A toast is a BOAST or other COMPOST To a guest or the host or one we love MOST;     To a CHINK or some GINK that is blacker than INK... Or any old thing for a chance to DRINK." - Traditional     ...     "Old wood to burn,    Old books to read,    Old wine to drink,    Old friends to trust." - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to eternity   ...   May we spend it in as good company as this night finds us." - Unknown     ...     "Too much work,    and no vacation,    Deserves at least a small libation.     So hail!   my friends,   and raise your glasses;     Work’s the curse of the drinking classes." - Last line is Oscar Wilde (October 16th, 1854 – November 30th, 1900), an Irish writer and poet.     ...     "To my friend   ...   If we ever disagree,    may you be in the right." - Traditional     ...     "May you always have a cool head and a warm heart." - Traditional     ...     "May we always mingle in the friendly bowl, The feast of reason and I he flow of the soul." - Unknown     ...     "A round to the best,    May we never get less,     A round to the worst,    May they die of thirst." - Traditional Scottish     ...     "May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed,    and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed." - Traditional     ...     "For [City's name] hath no sober man,    Or none of milk sop thinkers,   And no philosophical fools,   But great and glorious drinkers!" - Traditional     ...     "May the strength of three be in your journey." - Traditional     ...     "Our enemies never drink,    Our friends always do,    So let’s drink this drink,    And find out who is who." - Traditional     ...     "Here's to the great artistic genius, Pablo Picasso.    His last words were "Drink to me.”    Who am I to question genius?" - In honor of Pablo Picasso (October 25th, 1881 - April 8th, 1973),a Spanish painter.     ...     "If I die before you,    Raise a glass to my name,     If you die before me,    I’ll do the same." - Unknown     ...     "To friends:    As long as we are able To lift our glasses from the table." - Traditional     ...     "Mother's in the kitchen washing out the JUGS,    Sister's in the pantry bottling the SUDS,    Father's in the cellar mixing up the HOPS'     Johnny's on the front porch watching for the COPS."  - Prohibition song     ...     "Here's to Prohibition   ...   May it continue to reduce the number of men who think they can sing." - Unknown     ...     "Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship LENDS,    With the sparkle of beer and WINE;     May its sentiment always be deeper, my FRIENDS, Than the foam at the top of the STEIN." - Traditional     ...     "Here’s to the Witches,    Here’s to their CATS,    Here’s to the hoot owls And Whirring BATS;    Here’s to the ghosties,   In robes of WHITE,   Here’s to the thrills of Hallowe’en NIGHT." - A good Halloween toast.     ...     "Our lager,   Which art in barrels,   Hallowed be thy drink.     Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk),   At home as it is in the pub.     Give us this day our foamy head,   And forgive us our spillages,   As we forgive those who spill against us.     And lead us not to incarceration,   But deliver us from hangovers.     For thine is The beer, The bitter,  The lager.    Forever and ever,    Barmen." - The Beer Prayer     ...     "It is around the drinking table that friends understand best,    the warmth of being together." - Traditional     ...     "Twas an evening in NOVEMBER,    As I very well REMEMBER.    I was strolling down the street in drunken PRIDE,   But my knees were all AFLUTTER, So I landed in the GUTTER, And a pig came up a lay down by my SIDE.     Yes, I lay there in the GUTTER Thinking thoughts I could not UTTER,     When a colleen passing by did softly SAY,     'You can tell a man that BOOZES By the company he CHOOSES.'    At that the pig got up and walked AWAY!" - Traditional Irish Poem - Irish Pig     ...     "It's the first drop that destroys you,    there's no harm at all in the last." - Unknown     ...     "Here is to the fools of the world,    for without them the rest of us could not succeed." - Unknown     ...     "Dogs do it,    cats do it,   monkeys have a TRY.     Mums do it,   dads do it,   so why don't you and I?" - Unknown     ...     "To good friends,     Who know you well,    but like you anyway!" - Unknown     ...     "Here's to beefsteak when you're hungry,    Whiskey when you're DRY,    All the women you'll ever want,    And heaven when you DIE."  - Variation -  "Here’s to steak when you’re hungry,    Whiskey when you’re DRY ,    A lover when you need one,   And Heaven when you DIE." - Traditional Irish     ...     "When I think of Heaven,   I think of the past,    Surrounded by good friends   And raising a glass." - Traditional     ...     "In the words of Oliver Goldsmith,    Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains,    With grammar and nonsense and learning;    Good liquor I stoutly maintain,    Gives genius a better discerning." - In honor of Oliver Goldsmith (November 10th, 1730 - April 4th, 1774), an Anglo-Irish poet.     ...     "Be good.     If you can't be good,    be careful,    And if you can't be careful,    Name it after me." - Unknown     ...     "Practice makes perfect,    there's many do THINK,    but a man's not too perfect when he's practiced at DRINK." - Unknown     ...     "I have known many,   and liked not a few,    but loved only one,   and this toast is to you!" - Unknown     ...     "Who'd care to be a bee and sip Sweet honey from the flower's lip,     When he might be a fly and steer Head first into a can of beer?" - Unknown     ...     "Here's to the best key for unlocking friendship   -   whiskey." - Unknown     ...     "Drink is the curse of the land   ...   It makes you fight with your neighbor   ...   It makes you shoot at your landlord   -   and it makes you miss him." - Unknown     ...     "May there always be work for your hands to DO,    May your purse always hold a coin or TWO.     May the sun always shine warm on your windowPANE,    May a rainbow be certain to follow each RAIN.     May the hand of a friend always be NEAR YOU,    And may your heart be filled with gladness to CHEER YOU." - Traditional      ...     "Why,   we'll smoke and drink our beer.    For I like a drop of good beer,   I does.     I'ze fond of good beer,    I is.     Let gentlemen fine sit down to their wine.     But we'll all of us here stick to our beer." - Old Somersetshire English song     ...     "If the ocean was vodka and I was a DUCK,     I'd swim to the bottom and drink it all UP,    but the ocean's not vodka and I’m not a DUCK,   so pass me the bottle & lets get messed UP!!"     Variation        "If the ocean were whiskey,    and I were a DUCK,     I'd swim to the bottom and drink my way UP,   but the ocean's not whiskey,    and i'm not a DUCK,    so pass me the bottle and shut the F*CK UP." - Unknown     ...     "Here’s to you and yours,    And to mine and ours,    And if mine and ours ever come,    Across you and yours,    I hope you and yours will do,    As much for mine and ours,    As mine and ours have done For you and yours!" - Traditional     ...     "Let us acknowledge the evils of alcohol and strive to eliminate it   ...    one glass at a time." - Unknown     ...     "May the circulating bottle never Cause our heads to turn with it." - Traditional     ...     "May your bank account always be bigger than your troubles." - Traditional     ...      "May our stuffing be tasty,     May our turkey be PLUMP,     May our potatoes and gravy,    Have nary a LUMP.     May our yams be delicious, And our pies take the PRIZE,    And may our (Thanksgiving) dinner Stay off our THIGHS!" - A Good thanksgiving quote     ...     "To wish you joy on this day,    And all the whole year through,    For all the best that life can hold,    Is none too good for you." - Traditional     ...     "Don't die of LOVE,    in heaven ABOVE   ...   Or hell, they'll not ENDURE YOU.      Why look so GLUM ...  when Doctor RUM   ...    Is waiting for to CURE YOU?" - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer.     ...     "May you have warm words on a cold evening,     A full moon on a dark night,     And the road downhill all the way to your door." - Traditional Irish     ...     "The bubble winked at me and said,    'You’ll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'" - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), a British-born American writer and artist.     ...     "Lift 'em HIGH and drain 'em DRY ... To the guy who says, 'My turn to BUY.'" - Unknown     ...     "Keep your head cool and your feet warm,     And a glass of good whiskey will do you no harm." - Unknown     ...     "For, whether we're right or whether we're wrong,    There's a rose in every thistle." - Traditional Scottish     ...     "Here's to it:    The fighting SHEEN OF IT,    The yellow, the GREEN OF IT,    The white, the BLUE OF IT,    The swing, the HUE OF IT,  The dark, the red of it.    The fair have SIGHED FOR IT, The brave have DIED FOR IT, Foeman SOUGHT FOR IT, Heroes FOUGHT FOR IT,    Honour the fame of it   ........   THE TARTAN" - Traditional     ...     "May you live all the days of your life" - Jonathan Swift (November 30th, 1667 - October 19th, 1745), an Irish satirist.     ...     "Here's to the heath,    the hill and the heather,    The bonnit,  the plaid,  the kilt and the feather." - Traditional Scottish     ...     "Another day,   another bender,    No retreat and no surrender,    While tomorrow, we'll try to remember,    What to forget this day in December." - Unknown     ...     "We'll think of all the friends we know,    And drink to all worth drinking to." - Unknown     ...     "May your mornings bring joy,     and your evenings bring PEACE  ...   May your troubles grow less,    as your blessings INCREASE!     May you get all your wishes but one,     so that you will always have something to strive for!" - Traditional Irish     ...     "When Christ turned water into wine,  There were no drys to scold and whine;     Today prohibitors would rail,    And send the Son of God to jail."     ...     "What shall we drink to?   ...   To four in the morning!" - Unknown     ...     "Here’s to cold nights,  warm friends,   and a good drink to give them." - Anonymous     ...     "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." - James Grover Thurber (December 8th, 1894 – November 2nd, 1961), an American author and cartoonist.     ...     "I do THINK,   we've had enough to DRINK,    now the time is SUCH   ...   let's drink too MUCH" - Unknown     ...     "The horse and mule live thirty YEARS,    And never knows of wines and BEERS.     The goat and sheep at twenty DIE    Without a taste of scotch or RYE.,     The cow drinks water by the TON,    And at eighteen is mostly DONE.    The dog at fifteen cashes IN,    Without the aid of rum or GIN.     The modest, sober, bone-dry HEN,    Lays eggs for noggs and dies at TEN.     But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked MEN,    Survive three-score years and TEN.     And some of us...though mighty FEW,    Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-TWO." - Unknown     ...     "To the corkscrew   ...   a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,    the treasury of laughter,    the front door of fellowship,    and the gate of pleasant folly." - Unknown     ...     "And there's nothing so desperate, so dull or so DREAR,   as to sit at the bar,   of a pub with no BEER,     So raise me a glass,   as I sit right HERE, And pray once more,   I'll never face that FEAR." - Unknown     ...     "May all your joys be pure joys,    And all your pain Champagne." - Unknown     ...     "If all be true as we do think,   There are five reasons why we drink:     Good beer,   a Friend,   or being Dry,   Or lest one should be,   by and by … Or any other reason why!" - Henry Aldrich (1647 – 14 Decemberember 1710) Dean of Christ Church and English philosopher.     ...     "To the holidays  —  all 365 of them." - Anonymous     ...     "Now,  thrice welcome,  Christmas,   Which brings us good cheer,    Mince pies and plum pudding,   Strong ale and strong beer!" - Christmas Toast     ...     "I wish you a Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year,     A pocket full of money,     And a cellar full of beer!" - Christmas Toast     ...     "Christmas... Here's to holly and ivy hanging up,    And to something wet in every cup." - Traditional Christmas Toast     ...     "May you live as long as you Wish,   and have all you Wish as long as you live.    This is my Wish for you." - Unknown     ...     "May your sheep all have lambs but not on tonight." - Traditional Irish     ...     "Peace and plenty for many a year to come." - Traditional Irish     ...     "May you never be without a drop." - Traditional     ...     "May you be poor in misfortune and rich in blessings,   slow to make enemies,   quick to make friends,   and rich or poor,   slow or quick,   as happy as the Year is long."  - Variation -  "May you be poor in misfortune,    Rich in blessings,    Slow to make enemies, And quick to make friends.    But rich or poor, quick or slow,    May you know nothing but happiness From this day forward." - Traditional     ...     "May your corn stand high as yourself,   your fields grow bigger with rain,   and the Mare know its own way home on Christmas night." - Traditional Irish     ...     "I know I've wished you this BEFORE,    But every year I wish it MORE, A Merry Christmas" - Christmas Toast     ...     "May you never forget what is worth remembering,    or remember what is best forgotten." - Traditional     ...     "Here's wishing you more happiness Than all my words can tell,    Not just alone for Christmas,    But for all the year as well." - Traditional Christmas Toast     ...     "I have always thought of Christmas as a good time;     a kind,  forgiving,  generous,  pleasant time;     a time when men and women seem by one consent  ...  to open their hearts freely;    and so I say 'God bless Christmas'." - Charles Dickens     ...     "We've holidays and holy days,   and memory days galore;     And when we've toasted every one,   I offer just one more.     So let us lift our glasses high, and drink a silent toast.    The day, deep buried in each heart,   that each one loves the most." - Unknown     ...     "Then let us be merry and taste the good cheer,    And remember old Christmas comes but once a year." - Unknown Christmas Toast     ...     "In the year ahead,    May we treat our friends with kindness and our enemies with generosity." - Traditional     ...     "Should auld acquaintance be forgot,    And never brought to min',    Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne.    For auld lang syne, my dear,    For auld lang syne,    We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,    For auld lang syne.     And here's a hand,   my trusty fierce,    And gie's a hand o' thine,    And we'll tak' a right guid willie-waught,    For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne,   my dear,   For auld lang syne,     We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,    For auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint stowpt,   And surely I'll be mine,    And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,   For auld lang syne.     For auld lang syne, my dear,    For auld lang syne,     We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,   For auld lang syne." - Robert Burns- Alternative -     ...     "Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís.     Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit!" - Translation - "May we be alive at this time next year.     A prosperous New Year!" - Traditional Irish     ...    

 Toasts

January 1st

"In the New Year,
may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship,
but never in want."

- Alternative -

"May the best of this year be the worst of next."

January 2nd

"Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
-William Feather

January 3rd
" To a firm hand for a flighty beast
an old dog for the long road
a kettle of fish for Friday
and a welcome for the New Year.
"

January 4th

"May the warmth of our affections survive the frosts of age."

January 5

"May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms.
If you must steal, steal kisses.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends."

January 6th

"May neighbours respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you."

January 7

"May we kiss whom we please,
And please whom we kiss."

January 8th

"May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
The foresight to know where you are going,
And the insight to know when you have gone too far."

January 9th

"One bottle for four of us,
Thank God there's no more of us!"

January 10th

"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and a smooth road all the way to your door."

- Alternative - 

"May we kiss whom we please,
And please whom we kiss."

January 11th

"When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!"

January 12th

"Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,
With the sparkle of beer and wine;
May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,
Than the foam at the top of the stein."

January 13

"Oh, here's to other meetings,
   And merry greetings then;
And here's to those we've drunk with,
   But never can again."

January 14th

"May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!"


January 15
"Four blessings upon you...
Older whiskey
Younger women
Faster horses
More money"

January 16

"Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,
With the sparkle of beer and wine;
May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,
Than the foam at the top of the stein."

January 17

"Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad."

January 18

"Here’s to us that are here, to you that are there, and the rest of us everywhere."
- Rudyard Kipling (Decemberember 30th, 1865 – January 18th 1936), an English poet.

January 19

"Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away.
What care I how time advances;
I am drinking ale today."
- Edgar Allen Poe

January 20

"May you be found dead at the ripe 'ol age of 99, shot by a jealous spouse."

January 21

"May you never forget
what is worth remembering
or remember
what is best forgotten."

January 22

"Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate."

- George Gordon "Lord"  Byron (Said To Thomas Moore). George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.

January 23

"May we all come to peaceful ends,
And leave our debts unto our friends."

January 24

"Turn out more ale, turn up the light,
I will not go to bed tonight.
Of all the foes that man should dread
The first I have had both old and young,
And ale we drank and songs we sung.
Enough you know when this is said,
That, one and all—they died in bed!"
- Charles Henry Webb, Charles Henry Webb (January 24th, 1834 in Rouse's Point, New York - May 24th, 1905), an American poet and author. Toast is from Dum Vivimus Vigilamus.


January 25

"And fill them high with generous juice,
As generous as your mind,
And pledge me in this generous toast—
The whole of human kind!"
- Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) Also Known as Scotland's favourite son and  the Ploughman Poet.

January 26

"May your mornings bring joy
and your evenings bring peace...
May your troubles grow less
as your blessings increase!"

- Alternative -
"Cheers" or  "Cherio"
- In Celebration of Australia Day January 26th

January 27

"Work like you don’t need the money,
dance as if no one were watching,
sing as if no one were listening,
and live every day as if it were your last."

January 28

"Here's to women's kisses,
and to whiskey, amber clear;
Not as sweet as a woman's kiss,
but a darn sight more sincere!"

January 29

"Drink with impunity --
Or anyone who happens to invite you!"
- W.C. Fields.  William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880– Decemberember 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

January 30

"Here’s to our guest
Don’t let him rest.
But keep his elbow bending.
‘Tis time to drink
Full time to think
Tomorrow, when you’re mending."
 -  Anonymous


January 31

"A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
- Traditional Irish

February 1

"May your heart be light and happy,
May your smile be big and wide,
And may your pockets always have
a coin or two inside!"

February 2

- from Groundhog Day (the Movie)
Phil Connors speach Take 1
"Once a year, the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny Pennsylvania hamlet...
to watch a master at work.
The master?
Punxsutawney Phil...the world's most famous weatherman,
the groundhog...who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring.
The question we have to ask ourselves today is, "Does Phil feel lucky?"
Then it's the same old schtick.
The guy with the big stick raps on the door.
They pull the little rat out.  They talk to him.
The rat talks back and then they tell us what's gonna happen.
Isn't he cute?               
You like your guys with prominent upper teeth?
"This February  at  :   and    seconds...
Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers...
prognosticator of prognosticators...
emerged reluctantly,
but alertly...
in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania...
and stated in Groundhogese...
"I definitely see a shadow. "
Sorry, folks.  Six more weeks of winter."

Phil Connors speach take 2
"It's Groundhog Day again.
That must mean we're at Gobbler's Knob
waiting for the forecast...from the world's most famous groundhog weatherman...
Punxsutawney Phil...
who's just about to tell us how much more winter we can expect."

 Phil Connors speach take 3
"This is pitiful.
A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat.
What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town.
They used to pull the hog out and eat it!
You're hypocrites, all of you!
You got a problem with what I'm saying?
Untie your tongue, and you come out here and talk.
Am I upsetting you, Princess?
You want a prediction about the weather,
you're asking the wrong Phil.
I'll give you a winter prediction.
It's gonna be cold...
it's gonna be gray...
and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."

Phil Connors speach take 4
"Once again, the eyes of the nation have turned here to this...
tiny village in western Pennsylvania.
There is no way that this winter...
is ever going to end...
as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow.
I don't see any other way out.
He has to be stopped.
I have to stop him."

Phil Connors speach take 5
"When Chekhov saw the long winter...
he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope.
Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life.
But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney...
and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts...
I couldn't imagine a better fate... than a long and lustrous winter.
From Punxsutawney,
it's Phil Connors.
So long."

-Alternative Toast-

"Tagalog Mabuhay" (Long life)
In Celebration of Phillipines Constitution Day (February 2, 1987)

February 3rd

"May we never have friends who,
like shadows,
follow us in sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day."

February 4


"Success to the lover,
honor to the brave,
Health to the sick,
and freedom to the slave."

February 5

"May I see you grey and combing your grandchildren’s hair."

February 6

"There are many good reasons for drinking,
And one has just entered my head,
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How the hell can he drink when he's dead!"

February 7


"A glass in the hand’s worth two on the shelf,
Tipple it down and refresh yourself!"
- Anonymous

February 8

 "Here's to _, (s)he's true blue,
(S)he's a wanker through & through,
(S)he's a bastard so they say,
Tried to get to heaven but (s)he went the other way.
Drink it down, down, down."

-Variation-

"Here's to you, you're true blue,
A wanker through & through,
You're a bastard so they say,
Tried to get to heaven but you went the other way.
Drink it down, down, down."

February 9

"May your pockets be heavy
and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you
each morning and night."

February 10


"Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers,
Drink to the fathers and to their brothers;
Toast their dear healths as long as you’re able,
And dream of their charms while under the table."
- Anonymous

February 11

"The Frenchman loves his native wine,
     The German loves his beer.
The Englishman loves his 'alf and 'alf,
     Because it brings good cheer.
The Irishman loves his " whiskey straight,
     Because it gives him dizziness.
The American has no choice at all,
     So he drinks the whole damn business."

February 12

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

February 13

"May we get what we want,
May we get what we need,
But may we never get what we deserve."
-Cedric


February 14

"May the hinges of friendship never rust,
nor the wings of love lose a feather."
- Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church

- Alternative -

"Here's to the dove that flies above
and never sheds a feather
If I can't be with the one I love
I'll be drinkin' this stuff forever"

February 15

"Champagne costs too much,
Whiskey's too rough,
Vodka puts big mouths in gear.
This little refrain
Should help to explain
Why it's better to order a beer!"

February 16

"Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.

Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.

Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away.
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day."

February 17

"Gentlemen, start your livers!"
-In Celebration of the Dayton 500 (July 2013)
 

February 18

"May our faults
be written on the seashore,
and every good action prove a
wave to wash them out."
 
February 19

"Here's to health, peace and prosperity.
May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment,
nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends."

February 20

"Here's to me in my sober mood,
When I ramble, sit, and think.
Here's to me in my drunken mood,
When I gamble, sin, and drink.
And when my days are over,
And from this world I pass,
I hope they bury me upside down,
So the world can kiss my ass!"

February 21

"I drink to Woman
for each of them who makes a fool out of a man,
there is another who makes a man out of a fool."

February 22

"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 - Happy Birthday President Washington!

February 23


"May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you." 
-Traditional Irish

-Variation-

"May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up."
-Traditional Irish

February 24

"I used to know a clever toast,
But now I cannot think of it,
So fill your glass to anything,
And damn your souls, I’ll drink to it!"

February 25

"The horse and mule live thirty years
And never knows of wines and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
Without a taste of scotch or rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at eighteen is mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive three-score years and ten.
And some of us...though mighty few
Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two."

February 26

"Drinking will make a man quaff,
Quaffing will make a man sing,
Singing will make a man laugh,
And laughing long life doth bring."
- Thomas D'Urfey (Tom Durfey) (1653 – February 26, 1723) was an English writer.

February 27

"Here's to your health,
Fitness and tone.
I've drank to your health so many times,
I've ruined my god damned own."

February 28

"Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead."

February 29

"May you never steal, lie or cheat. But if you have to steal, then steal away my sorrows. If you have to lie, then lie with me all the nights of our life. If you have to cheat, then cheat death because I don't want to live a day without you."
- Traditional Irish Toast from the movie "Leap Year"

March 1

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.
- Traditional Irish

March  2

"May your blessings outnumber
the shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
wherever you go."
- Traditional Irish

March 3


"God then made man.
The Italian for their beauty.
The French for fine food.
The Swedes for intelligence.
The Jew for religion.
And on and on until he looked at what
he had created and said,
"This is all very fine but no one is having fun.
I guess I'll have to make me an Irishman.""

March 4

"Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you."
- Traditional Irish

March 5

"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and a smooth road all the way to your door."
- Traditional Irish
 
March 6

"May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand."
- Traditional Irish

March 7

"Here’s hoping that you live forever
And mine is the last voice you hear."
- Willard Scott, (born Marchch 7, 1934), from A Gentleman’s Guide to Toasting.

March 8

"When money's tight and hard to get
and your horse is also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
a pint of plain is your only man."
- Traditional Irish

March 9

"Here's to Hell!
May the stay there,
Be as much fun as the way there!"
- Traditional Irish

March 10

"May you have all the happiness
and luck that life can hold...
And at the end of all your rainbows
may you find a pot of gold."
- Traditional Irish

March 11

"An Irishman is never drunk as long as
He can hold onto one blade of grass and not
Fall off the face of the earth."

March 12

"Health and a long life to you.
Land without rent to you.
A child every year to you.
And if you can't go to heaven,
May you at least die in Ireland."
- Traditional Irish

-Alternative-

Health and life to you;
The mate of your choice to you;
Land without rent to you,
And death in Eirinn.
- Traditional Irish

March 13

"May the winds of fortune sail you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, "this drink's on me.""
- Traditional Irish
 

March 14

"May the lilt of Irish laughter
lighten every load.
May the mist of Irish magic
shorten every road...
And may all your friends remember
all the favours you are owed!"
- Traditional Irish

March 15

"Tis my will when I die, not a tear shall be shed,
No Hie Jacet be graved on my stone,
But pour o'er my coffin a bottle of red,
And write that His Drinking is Done."

March 16

"May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past."
- Traditional Irish

March 17

"The anniversary of St. Patrick's day, and may the Shamrock be green forever."
- Traditional Irish

-Alternative-

"Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
Who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland,
Here’s a toasting to his health.
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see all those snakes again.
'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'
Happy St. Patrick's Day!"

March 18

"May you have all the happiness
and luck that life can hold—
And at the end of all your rainbows
may you find a pot of gold."
- Traditional Irish

March 19

"If you’re enough lucky to be Irish...
You’re lucky enough!"

 
March 20

"May God grant you many years to live,
for sure he must be knowing,
the earth has angels all too few
and heaven is overflowing."

March 21

"May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks
May your heart be as light as a song
May each day bring you bright
Happy hours that stay with you all the year long."
- Traditional Irish

March 22

"May you have food and raiment,
a soft pillow for your head.
May you be forty years in heaven
before the devil knows you’re dead."
- Traditional Irish
 
March 23

"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night."
- Traditional Irish

March 24

"May your mornings bring joy
and your evenings bring peace...
May your troubles grow less
as your blessings increase!"
- Traditional Irish

March 25

"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night."
- Traditional Irish

-Alternative-

"Stin Eyiassou!" (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh)
(Greek) "To Your Health!"
- In Recognition of the 25th of Marchch (Greece)

 
March 26

"Why, if 'tis dancing you would be,
There's brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world's not."
--A.E. Housmann (born Alfred Edward Housman Marchch 26th, 1859 – April 30th 1936),  an English classical scholar and poet.

March 27

"Here's to beauty, wit, and beer,
and to a full stomach, a full purse, and a light heart."
- Traditional Irish

-Alternative-

"A full belly, a heavy purse, and a light heart."
- Traditional Irish

March 28

"In heaven there is no beer...
That's why we drink ours here."

March 29

"May the luck of the Irish
Lead to happiest heights
And the highway you travel
Be lined with green lights.
Wherever you go and whatever you do,
May the luck of the Irish be there with you."
- Traditional Irish

March 30

"May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!"
- Traditional Irish

March 31

"May the face of every good news
and the back of every bad news be towards us."
- Traditional Irish
 
April 1

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I've got Alzheimer's
Cheese on toast"

- Alternative -
"Vashi"
- Baluchi - Iran In Celebration of Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979

April 2

“Of all my favorite things to do,
The utmost is to have a brew.
My love grows for my foamy friend,
With each thirst-quenching elbow bend.
Beer’s so frothy, smooth and cold–
It’s paradise–pure liquid gold.
Yes, beer means many things to me…
That’s all for now, I gotta pee!”
 
April 3

"There are good ships, and there are wood ships,
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships, are friendships,
And may they always be."

April 4

"May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you."
- Traditional Irish

April 5

"May you live as long as you like,
And have all you like as long as you live."

- Alternative -

“May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live”

April 6

"May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it."
- Traditional Irish

April 7

"Here’s to fine wine, women, and song.
And here’s to workdays that aren’t too long.
Here’s to shoes that always fit.
And here’s to you, you silly sh*t!"

April 8

"With small beer, good ale and wine,
O ye gods! How I shall dine!"

April 9

"Let No Man Thirst For Lack Of Real Ale."

April 10

"A generation of children on the children of your children."
 
April 11

"Thirst is a shameless disease so here's to a shameful cure."

April 12

"May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire."
- Traditional Irish

April 13

"Here's to a temperance supper,
With water in glasses tall,
And coffee and tea to end with--
And me not there at all!"

April 14

"I'd rather have a dinner while I'm living, than a monument when I'm dead, for the dinner will be on my friends, while the monument would be on me."

- Alternative -
"Joy"
- Bengali / Bangla New Year's Day April 14th

April 15

"So that our children will have wealthy parents."

April 16

"May we never be in need of a friend to cheer us, or a bottle to cheer him."

April 17

"I'll drink to the Girls who do!
I'll drink to the Girls who don't!
But...I won't drink to Girls
Who say they will and won't!"

April 18

"I wish you health, I wish you well, and happiness galore.
I wish you luck for you and friends; what could I wish you more?
May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as its foam.
And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam."

April 19
1
"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
- Lord Byron (January 22nd, 1788 – April 19th, 1824), an English poet.
2
"Laugh at all things,
Great and small things,
Sick and well, at sea or shore;
While we are quaffing,
Let’s have laughing,
Who the devil cares for more?"
- Lord Byron

April 20

"Here's to cheating, stealing, fighting, and smoking.
If you cheat, cheat death.
If you steal, steal a woman's heart.
If you fight, fight for a brother.
And If you smoke, then smoke with me!!"

April 21

"So live that when you come to die, even the undertaker will feel sorry for you."
- Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known as Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.

April 22

"The devil invented Whiskey to make the Irish poor."

April 23

"May our house always be too small to hold all our friends."

April 24

"May you...
Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no-one is watching,
screw like it's being filmed,
and drink like a true Irishman."

April 25

"Here's to my mother-in-law, who still calls me a son...
But I never let her finish the sentence."

April 26

"Here's to the women that I've loved
     and all the ones I've kissed.
As for regrets, I just have one;
     that's all the ones I've missed.
Oh, women's faults are many,
     us men have only two:
Every single thing we say,
     and everything we do."
 
April 27

"To Death, the jolly old bouncer, now
Our glasses let's be clinking;
If he hadn't put other out, I trow,
To-night we'd not be drinking."

- Oliver Herford (1863–1935) a British born American writer, artist and illustrator.

April 28

"To the lamp of love:  may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial."
- Unknown

April 29

"Here's To Singles
Friends And Heroes
They say in life we need friends and heros,
As I look out upon all of you today,
I raise my glass and say to you....
I am glad I can be both."

April 30

"Wasser ist billig, rein und gut; Doch verdunt es unser blut."
"Water is cheap, pure and good...but it thins the blood."
-  In celebration of Queensday (Queen Juliana's birthday) in the Netherlands on April 30th.

May 1

"Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a Marchriage day."
- Francis Quarles

May 2

'Here's to the girl,
with eyes of brown,
Who cheers you up,
when you're feeling down,

Here's to the girl
with eyes of blue,
Who has a nice smile,
and a heart so true,

Here's to the girl,
with eyes of green,
Whose silky hair,
is the fairest I've seen,

But, no matter their hue,
Yours are best, know why?
'cause yours laugh when mine laugh
and cry, when mine cry.'

- Variation -

"Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,
Whose hear is kind and love is true;
Here's to the girl with eyes of brown,
Who's spirit proud you cannot down;
Here's to the girl with eyes of gray,
Whose sunny smile drives care away --
Whate'er the hue of their eyes may be"

May 3

"Here's to you and here's to me,
Friends may we always be!
But, if by chance we disagree,
Up yours! Here's to me!"

May 4

"My grandmother is over 80
And still doesn't need glasses.
Drinks right out of the bottle."

May 5

"Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last."

May 6

"May your joys be as deep as the ocean
And your misfortunes as light as the foam."

May 7

"Here's to all of the women who have used me and abused me...
And may they continue to do so!"
- Unknown

May 8

"Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a Marchriage day."
- Francis Quarles (May 8th, 1592 - September 8th,1644), an English poet.

May 9

"Here's to your health-a long life and an easy death to you."

May 10

"To friends: as long as we are able
To lift our glasses from the table."
- Anonymous

May 11

"May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through."
- Traditional Irish

May 12

"Here's to the wonderful days of my life
when I slept in the arms of another man's wife
My mother!"
- Happy Mother's Day

- Alternative -

"But if at church they give some ale
And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale
We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day
Nor ever once from the church to stray."

May 13

"Here’s to the bottle which holds a store
Of imprisoned joy and laughter!
Here’s to this bottle,
Many more bottles,
And others to follow after."
- Anonymous

May 14

"Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright;
Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white;
Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer;
Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?"
-19th Century Toast

May 15

"May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you."
- Traditional Irish

May 16

"Here's to God's first thought, Man!
Here's to God's second thought, Woman!
Seconds thoughts are always best,
So here's to Woman!"
- Unknown

May 17

"To your good health, old friend,
may you live for a thousand years,
and I be there to count them."
- Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 Marchch 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer

May 18

"To our host,
An excellent man.
For is not a man
Fairly judged by the
Company he keeps?"
- Anonymous

- Alternative -

"Here's to our enemies....
Laying face down, cold in their graves"
- In celebration of Armed Forces Day (2013) (May 17th 2014)

May 19

"May your joys be as bright as the morning; and their sorrow but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love."

May 20

Here's to your health! You make age curious, Time furious, and all of us envious.

May 21

"Old wood to burn,
Old books to read,
Old wine to drink,
Old friends to trust."

May 22

"For every wound, a balm.
For every sorrow, cheer.
For every storm, a calm.
For every thirst, a beer
"- Unknown

May 23

"A man takes a drink;
the drink takes a drink;
the drink takes the man."

May 24

"To friendship: May differences of opinion cement it."
- Anonymous

May 25

"A day for toil, an hour for sport,
 But for a friend life is too short."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25th, 1803 - April 27th, 1882), an American poet.

- Alternative -
"Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo"
- In Celebration of the May Revolution, Argentina, May 25, 1810

May 26

"Party with laughter and beer,
And hug everyone who is dear.
For you can’t be sure,
As you grow more mature,
You’ll be able to party next year"
- Traditional

May 27

"Here's to the Army and the Navy,
And to the battles they've won.
Here's to America's colors,
The colors that never run."
- Happy Memorial Day (USA) (2013)

May 28

"Here's to Them..
That wish us well,
All the rest..
Can Go to Hell.
Here's To the Men,
Here's To Health,
"Here's health and prosperity,
to you and your posterity,
and to them that don't drink with sincerity,
may they be damned for all eternity."
- Unknown

- Alternative -
"Genatzt" or "Genatset" or "Genatsoot" ("Life")
- Armenian, Republic Day - Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, May 28th

- Alternative -
" AWA AWA !!! klinke klanke glasset i bordet gentagne gange ...
 et AWA i en sætning udløser en skål."
- Afiyæt oslun / In Celebration of Azerbaijan Republic Day May 28th.

May 29

"A toast to love and laughter and happily ever after"
- Unknown

May 30

"You foam within our glasses, you lusty golden brew,
Whoever imbibes takes fire from you.
The young and the old sing your praises,
Here's to beer,
Here's to cheer,
Here's to beer!"
- From the opera, "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana, first performed May 30th, 1866 at at the Provisional Theatre, Prague.

May 31

"That a doctor might never earn a dollar out of you,
And that your heart may never give out."
- Traditional

- Alternative -
"Gesondheid" or "Amandla"
- Afrikaans - (May 31 is Republic Day, South Africa)

June 1

"May we be happy and our enemies know it."
- Anonymous

June 2

"In Vino Veritas, In Cervesio Felicitas"
"In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is joy."
- In Celebration of Republic Day - Festa della Repubblica in Italy.

- Alternative -


"While we live, Let’s live."
- Traditional Italian  - In celebration of Festa della Repubblica
 
June 3

"God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference"
- Traditional

June 4

"The health of the salmon to you...
a long life, a full heart and a wet mouth!"
- Anonymous

June 5

"God bless the corners of this house and all the lintel blessed.
And bless the hearth and bless the board
and bless each place of rest.
And bless each door that opens wide
to strangers as to kin.
And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in
and bless the rooftree overhead.
And every sturdy wall.
The peace of man, the peace of God.
The peace or love on all."
- Unknown

June 6

"Here’s to cheating, stealing, fighting, and drinking.
If you cheat, may you cheat death
If you steal, may you steal a woman’s heart.
If you fight, may you fight for a brother
And if you drink, may you drink with me."
- Traditional Irish

June 7

"Starkle starkle little twink,
who the hell you are I think,
I’m not under what you call,
the alcofluence of incohol,
I’m just a little slort of sheep,
I’m not drunk like tinkle peep,
I don’t know who is me yet,
but the drunker I stand here
the longer I get,
Just give me one more drink
to fill me cup,
‘cuz I got all day sober
to Sunday up."
- Traditional

June 8

"The German likes his beer
The Pommy likes his half and half
Because it brings good cheer
The Scotsman likes his whisky
And the Irishman likes his hot
The Aussie has no national drink
So he drinks the bloody lot."
- Traditional

June 9

"May we breakfast with Health,
dine with Friendship,
crack a bottle with Mirth,
and sup with the goddess Contentment."
- Anonymous

June 10

"May the saddest day of your future be no worse
Than the happiest day of your past."
- Traditional Irish

June 11

"To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure;
To the fair, their face,
With eternal grace;
And the rest, to be loved at leisure."
- Ben Jonson (June 11th, 1572 – August 6th, 1637), an English Renaissance dramatist.

June 12

"May the roof above you never fall in,
And those gathered beneath it never fall out."
- Traditional Irish

- Alternative -

"Tagalog Mabuhay"
"Long life"
- In celebration of Philippine Independence (Declared on June 12, 1898)

June 13

"A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote."
- William Butler Yeats (June 13th, 1865 – January 28th, 1939),an Irish poet.

June 14

"Here’s to the man who drinks strong ale,
and goes to bed quite mellow.
Lives as he ought to live,
and dies a jolly good fellow."
- Unknown

June 15

"Here's health to your enemies' enemies!"
- Traditional

June 16

"A little health, a little wealth,
A little house and freedom.
With some few friends for certain ends
But little cause to need ‘em."
- Anonymous

June 17

"Here’s to those who love us,
And here’s to those who don’t,
A smile for those who are willing to,
And a tear for those who won’t."
- Anonymous

June 18

"To the thirst that is yet to come."
- Traditional Irish

June 19

"Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here’s to the widow of fifty;
Here’s to the flaunting extravagant queen;
And here’s to the housewife that’s thirty.
Let the toast pass...
Drink to the lass...
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass.

For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be slim,
Young or ancient, I care not a feather;
So fill a pint bumber quite up to the brim,
And let us e’en toast ‘em together.
Let the toast pass...
Drink to the lass...
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass."
- Traditional

June 20

"To Alcohol... a liquid good for preserving almost anything except secrets."
- Gideon Wurdz, from the foolish dictionary.

June 21

"Here's to the Ladies,
We admire them for their beauty,
respect them for their intelligence,
adore them for their virtue,
and love them, because we can't help it."
-Anonymous

June 22

"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow
than to spend tonight like there's no money!"
- Unknown

June 23

"Here's to us,
And those like us.
Damn few and they're probably dead.
Cheers!"
- Anonymous

June 24

"Here's to a guy who is never blue,
Here's to a buddy who is ever true,
Here's to a pal, no matter what the load,
Who never Declines, just one for the road."
- Unknown

June 25

"A drink, my lass, in a deep clear glass,
Just properly tempered by ice,
And here’s to the lips mine have kissed,
And if they were thine, here’s twice."
- Anonymous

June 26

"Daylight comes through the drunkard's roof the fastest."
- Unknown

June 27

"Here's to the perfect girl,
I couldn't ask for more.
She's deaf 'n dumb, oversexed,
and owns a liquor store."
- Anonymous
 
June 28

"Here's to wives and sweethearts!
May they never, never meet."
- Anonymous

June 29

"May your night be like a kitchen table…
all legs and no drawers."
- Unknown

June 30

"To times weve had.
Some were happy,
some were sad.
Memories,
our partners in crime.
Throwing up a thousand times."
- Unknown

July 1

"May the winds of fortune sail you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, 'this drink’s on me.'"
- Traditional

July 2

"Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise alone, and still drink more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise."

- Variation -

"He is not drunk who from the floor
Can rise alone and drink some more;
But he is drunk who prostrate liles,
And cannot drink or cannot rise"
- Traditional

July 3

"Here’s to those that wish us well,
all the rest can go to hell."
- Anonymous.

July 4
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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

- Alternative -
"Cheers" or "Bottoms Up"
- Traditional USA, In Celebration of Independence Day July 4
 - Americans with German roots say "Prost", Irish roots "Slainte", Italian/Latin Roots- "Salute"

July 5

"Here’s to love.
It doesn’t make the world go ’round,
It’s what makes the ride worthwhile."
- Franklin P. Jones

July 6

"May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age."
- Anonymous

July 7

"May all your ups and downs be under the blankets."
- Unknown

July 8

"None so deaf as those who will not hear.
None so blind as those who will not see.
But I’ll wager none so deaf nor so blind that he
Sees not nor hears me say come drink this beer."
- W.L. Hasoldt

July 9

"Candy Is Dandy
But liquor Is quicker."

July 10

"Down your throat,
Into your bladder,
Which end it comes out,
Does it really matter?"
- Unknown

July 11

"We drink to your coffin.
May it be built from the wood of a hundred year old oak tree that I shall plant tomorrow."
- Traditional Irish

- Variation -

"May your coffin have six handles of finest silver!
May your coffin be carried by six fair young maids!
And may your coffin be made of finest wood
from a 100-year-old tree
that I'll go plant tomorrow!"
- Traditional Irish

July 12

"Come, sit we by the fireside
And roundly drink we hear,
Till that we see our cheeks all dyed
And noses tanned with beer."
- Traditional

July 13

"Here’s to the four hinges of Friendship...
Swearing, Lying, Stealing, and Drinking.
When you swear, swear by your country.
When you lie, lie for a pretty woman.
When you steal, steal away from bad company.
And when you drink, drink with me."
- Anonymous

July 14

A Votre Sante! (French) (Ah Vot-ruh Sahn-tay) To Your Health!

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Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world
- Happy Bastille Day!!

July 15

"For every wound, a balm.
For every sorrow, cheer.
For every storm, a calm.
For every thirst, a beer."
- Traditional

July 16

"Here’s to the heart that fills as the bottle empties."
- Anonymous

July 17

"Make new friends, but keep the old;
These are silver, those are gold.
New-made friends, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Brow may furrow, hair turn gray,
But friendship never knows Decemberay."
- Art Linkletter (July 17th, 1912 - May 26th, 2010), a Canadian radio and television personality.

July 18

"From man's sweat and God's love,beer came into the world"
- Saint Arnold, recognized by the Catholic Church as the Patron Saint of Hop-Pickers and Belgian Brewers. His miracle was a Mug that never ran dry and satisfied thirsty crowd. July 18th is St. Arnold's Day

July 19

"That the tap may be open when it rusts"
- Traditional

July 20

"I once knew a girl who lived on a hill,
What she won't do her sister will...
So here's to her sister"
- Anonymous

July 21

"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."
- Traditional

- Alternative -
"Op uw gezondheid' (Flemish/Dutch) or "A Votre Sante" (French)
- In Celebration of Belgium's National Holiday, Commemorating the ascension to the throne of Belgium's first king Leopold I on July 21st 

July 22

"The man that isn’t jolly after drinking
Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking."
- Euripides
 
July 23

"Here’s to eternity, may we spend it in as good company as this night finds us."
- Anonymous

July 24

"A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig."
- Unknown

July 25

"Now I, friend, drink to you, friend,
As my friend drank to me,
And I, friend, charge to you, friend,
As my friend charge me,
That you, friend, drink to your friend,
As my friend drank to me;
And the more we drink together, friend,
The merrier we will be!"
- Anonymous

July 26

"Let no man thirst for lack of Real Ale."
- Unknown
- Alternative -
"May the path to hell grow green with grass for want of use!"

July 27

"Here's to the women with faces so fair,
Framed in a wreath of beautiful hair,
Pretty red lips as soft as a rose,
How many have kissed them God only knows."
- Unknown

July 28

"May your last check bounce before you die."
- Unknown

July 29

"Here's to King Solomon, ruler and sage,
the wisest of men in history's page.
He had wives by the thousand, and thought it was fun...
Here's hoping we know how to handle just one."
- Unknown
 
July 30

 “So here’s to all those summer nights when my feet hit the sand
and the waves break my fall and
all my friends around me out number the stars.”
- Unknown

July 31

"The bubble winked at me and said,
'You’ll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'"
 - Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer

August 1

"Love"
There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
and the love of a staunch true man.
There's the love of a baby that's unafraid,
all have existed since time began.

But the most wonderful love, the Love of Loves,
even greater than the love for Mother,
is the intimate, tenderest, passionate love...
of one dead drunk for another."

- Variation -

"The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby unafraid
Has existed since time began;
But the greatest love, the love of loves,
Even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love
Of one drunken bum for another."

August   2

“Here’s to us girls with the high-heeled shoes …
We spend your money and drink your booze …
We may have no cherry, but that’s no sin …
We still have the box that it came in!”
- Unknown

August 3

“Amazing friends; summer nights;
Chocolate ice cream; mud slide fights;
Half the summer is gone already
So lets spend the rest of it; slow and steady.”
- Unknown

August 4

"Here's to being single...
Drinking doubles...
And seeing triple!"
- Unknown

August 5

"To the lamp of love...
may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial." 
- Unknown

August 6

"May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more
and nothing but happiness
come through the door."
- Traditional Irish

August 7

"Friendship's the wine of life.
Let's drink of it and to it."
- Unknown

August 8

"For every wound, a balm.
For every sorrow, cheer.
For every storm, a calm.
For every thirst, a beer."
- Traditional

August 9

“Here’s to the nights where the sand is your seat, the waves kiss your feet, your friends outnumber the stars, and even the chilliest of nights are still warmer than the cold one in your hand.”
- Unknown

August 10

"To Mom's cooking:
May my wife never find out how bad it really was."
- Unknown
- Alternative -
"Here's to the girls of the American shore,
I love but one, I love no more;
Since she's not here to drink her part,
I drink her share with all my heart."
- Unknown

August 11

"Here's Champagne to our real friends
and real pain to our sham friends."
- Unknown

August 12

"Don't worry about the future,
The present is all thou hast,
The future will soon be present,
And the present will soon be past."
- Unknown

August 13

“May you be half an hour in heaven
Before the devil knows your dead."
- Traditional Irish
- Variation -
"Here's hoping you're in Heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you're dead."
- Irish Toast
"Here's to bread, eggs and cinnamon."
- French Toast

 August 14

"Here's to all of your friends...
they know you far too well,
and they still like you."
- Unknown

August 15

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

August 16

"My heart is as full as my glass,
When I drink to you, old friend!"
- Unknown
 

August 17

"Here's a toast to all who are here,
no matter where you're from.
May the best day you have seen,
be worse than your worse to come."
 - Traditional Irish

- Alternative -
"Pro"
- Bahasa / In Celebration of Indonesia Independence Day August 17th

August 18

"Here’s to our guest...
Don’t let him rest.
But keep his elbow bending.
‘Tis time to drink...
Full time to think
Tomorrow...when you’re mending."
- Unknown
 
August 19

"Then here's to the heartening wassail,
Wherever good fellows are found;
Be its master instead of its vassal,
And order the glasses around."
- Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19th, 1902 – May 19th, 1971), an American poet known for light verse.

August 20

"Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,
With the sparkle of beer and wine;
May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,
Than the foam at the top of the stein."
- Traditional

August  21

"The man that isn’t jolly after drinking
Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking."
- Euripides

August  22

"I drink Marchtinis.
Two at the very most.
Three I'm under the table.
Four I'm under the host"
- Dorothy Parker (August 22nd, 1893 – June 7th, 1967), an American poet.
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"Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)"
- Dorothy Parker

August  23

"May the most you wish for be the least you get."
- Traditional Irish

August  24

"Come, sit we by the fireside
And roundly drink we hear,
Till that we see our cheeks all dyed
And noses tanned with beer."
- Robert Herrick (baptized August 24th, 1591 – buried October 15th, 1674), an English poet.

August  25

"Here's to the wine we love to drink, and the food we like to eat.
Here's to our wives and sweethearts, let's pray they never meet.
Here's champagne for our real friends And real pain for our sham friends.
And when this life is over, may all of us find peace."
- Traditional

August  26

"Times are hard,
And wages are small,
So drink more beer,
And f**k em all."
- Unknown

August 27

"May the joys of today
Be those of tomorrow.
The goblets of life
Hold no dregs of sorrow."
- Unknown
 
August 28

"Solange man nüchtern ist,
gefällt das Schlechte.
Wie man getrunken hat,
weiss man das Rechte."
"When one is sober,
the bad can appeal.
When one has taken a drink,
One knows what's real."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28th, 1749  - Marchch 22nd, 1832), a German writer.

August 29

"Here's health in homely rhyme
To our oldest classmate, Father Time;
May our last survivor live to be
As bold and wise and as thorough as he!"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American professor and author

August 30

"To eternity, may it last forever!"
- Unknown

August 31

"To all the days here and after
May they be filled with fond memories, happiness, and laughter."
 - Traditional

September 1

"May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of love lose a feather"
- Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872), a clergyman and Dean of Edinburgh.
 

September 2

"Here's to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend.
The first beautiful, the second full, the last ever faithful."
- Traditional

September 3

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
- Unknown

September 4

"May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmothers teeth."
- Unknown

September 5

"Here's to women, beer and song, may none of them be flat."
- Unknown
- Alternative-
"May you never go to hell
But always be on your way."
- Yiddish - Happy Rosh HaShanah (2013)

September 6

"Here’s to health and prosperity,
To you and all your posterity,
And them that doesn’t drink with sincerity,
That they may be damned for all eternity!"
 - Unknown

September 7

"Before you call for one for the road be sure you know the road."
- Unknown

September 8

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon
And some days you're the statue."
- Unknown
- Alternative -
"Bottoms up,Tops down.
Wear a smile, Not a frown."
- Unknown

September 9

"May we live to learn well,
And learn to live well."
- Unknown
 
September 10

"To the holidays...all 365 of them."
- Anonymous

September 11

"When life''s on the line! - We''re the first to respond.
"Play it safe! - You may be my job one day.
God Bless, to my Brothers that were lost''d in 9/11"  
- FDNY toast

September 12

"Be one who drinks the finest of ales.
Every day without fail.
Even when you have drank enough,
Remember that ale is wonderful stuff."
- Unknown

September 13

"Some friends wish you happiness,
and others wish you wealth...
But I wish you the best of all...
contentment blessed with health!
- Unknown

September 14

"Happiness being a dessert so sweet
May life give you more than you can ever eat"
- Traditional

September 15

"Here’s to hard work and fun filled vacations.
Great workmates and high expectations.
Here’s to all your success and all the raised glasses.
So, this toast is for you, cuz you all are bad asses!"
- Anonymous

September 16

"We'll think of all the friends we know
And drink to all worth drinking to."
- Unknown

September 17

"May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live."
- Traditional Irish, In celebration of St. Patrick's day in the Summer.

September 18

"To Alcohol...a liquid good for preserving almost anything except secrets."
- Gideon Wordz

September 19

"I'll drink to the girls that will,
I'll drink to the girls that won't,
But I won't drink to the girls that say they will,
And then I find out they don't."
- Unknown

September 20

"Love to one, friendship to many, and good will to all."
- Traditional

September 21

"May you both grow old on one pillow."
- Traditional Armenian - Happy  Armenian Independence Day (From USSR)

September 22

"May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!" 
- Philip Dormer Stanhope (September 22nd, 1694 - March 24th, 1773), the 4th Earl of Chesterfield and British statesman.

September 23

"Here's champagne to your real friends,
And real pain to your sham friends!"
- Unknown

September 24

"May we have more and more friends, and need them less and less."
- Traditional

September 25

"Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology."
- Marchk Hawkins, in the New York Times, September 25, 1977

September 26

"The truth comes out when the spirit goes in."
- Unknown

September 27

"May our house always be too small to hold all our friends."
- Myrtle Reed (September 27th, 1874 – August 17th , 1911), an American author and poet.

September  28

"L'Chaim! (Le Hy-em - Hebrew) To Life!
- In celebration of Rosh Hashanah - Jewish - sunset, September 28 – sunset, September 30

September  29

"He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else."
- Traditional

September  30

"Here's to good old whiskey...
may those who use it never abuse it."
- Unknown

October 1

"He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October. 
But he who goes to bed, and does so mellow,
shall live as he ought to, and dies a good fellow."
- Traditional

October 2

"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 Marchx (born Julius Henry Marchx - October 2nd, 1890 - August 19th, 1977), an American comedian.
 
October  3

"Here's to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold pint-- and another one!"
- Traditional Irish

- Variation -

"Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty wife and a true one
A cold drink and another one."
- Traditional Irish

- Alternative -

"Prosit!" (Proh-sit - German) Cheers!
- Traditional German - In celebration of German Unity Day

October 4

"A toast to bread,
as without bread,
we'd have no toast"
- Unknown

October 5

"Das Leben ist bezaubernd, man muss es nur durch die richtige Brille sehen."
Translation: "Life ist wonderful, you just need to see it through the right glasses."
- Traditional German

October 6

"Here's to our native land! May we live for it and die in it."
- Traditional

October 7

"When wine enlivens the heart may friendship surround the table."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American physician (also see August 29th)

- Alternative -

"L'Chaim!" (Le Hy-em)
Translation : To Life!
- Traditional Hebrew - In Celebartion of Yom Kippur on Sunset, October 7th to nightfall, October 8

October 8

"Make we the most of what we may yet spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and sans end."
- Omar Khayyam
 
October 9

"May your Guardian Angel be at your side to pick ya up off the floor and hand ya another cold one."
 - Unknown

October 10

"Health to you, and wealth to you, and the best that life can give to you!"
- Traditional

October 11

"Re-live it as often as you like.  It is free and it never wears out.  It’s the memory we’re making today, right now."
- Unknown
 
October 12

"Better a well known drunkard
Than an anonymous alcoholic."
- Traditional Spanish - Happy Fiesta Nacional de España!

October 13

"A toast is a boast or other compost
To a guest or the host or one we love most;
To a Chink or some gink that is blacker than ink...
Or any old thing for a chance to drink."
- Traditional

October 14

"Old wood to burn,
Old books to read,
Old wine to drink,
Old friends to trust."
- Traditional

October 15

"Here’s to eternity...
May we spend it in as good company as this night finds us."
- Unknown

October 16

"Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses;
Work’s the curse of the drinking classes."
- Last line is Oscar Wilde (October 16th, 1854 – November 30th, 1900), an Irish writer and poet.

October 17

"To my friend...
If we ever disagree, may you be in the right."
- Traditional

October 18

"May you always have a cool head and a warm heart."
- Traditional

October 19

"May we always mingle in the friendly bowl,
The feast of reason and I he flow of the soul."
- Unknown

October 20

"A round to the best
May we never get less
A round to the worst
May they die of thirst."
- Traditional Scottish

October 21

"May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed,
and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed."
- Traditional

October 22

"For [City's name] hath no sober man,
Or none of milk sop thinkers,
And no philosophical fools,
But great and glorious drinkers!"
- Traditional

October 23

"May the strength of three be in your journey."
- Traditional

October 24

"Our enemies never drink
Our friends always do
So let’s drink this drink
And find out who is who."
- Traditional

October 25

"Here's to the great artistic genius, Pablo Picasso. His last words were "Drink to me.”  Who am I to question genius?"
- In honor of Pablo Picasso (October 25th, 1881 - April 8th, 1973),a Spanish painter.

October 26

"If i die before you
Raise a glass to my name
If you die before me
I’ll do the same."
- Unknown

- Alternative -
"Prosit" or "Prost" (German) or "Zum Wohl"
- In Celebration of Austrian National Day (day of the Declaration of Neutrality) October 26th.
 

October 27

"To friends: as long as we are able
To lift our glasses from the table."
- Traditional

- Alternative -

Na Zdravi (Czech) (Na zdrah vi) To Your Health
 - In celebration of  Independent Czechoslovak State Day

- Alternative -

Stin Eyiassou! (Greek) (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh) To Your Health!
 - In clelebration of The "Ohi day"

October 28

"Mother's in the kitchen washing out the jugs,
Sister's in the pantry bottling the suds,
Father's in the cellar mixing up the hops'
Johnny's on the front porch watching for the cops."
- Prohibition song. In rememberence of The "Volstead Act", the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, passed through Congress over President Woodrow Wilson's veto on October 28, 1919, and established the legal definition of intoxicating liquor, as well as penalties for producing it.

October 29

"Here's to Prohibiton...
May it continue to reduce the number of men who think they can sing."
- Unknown

October 30

"Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,
With the sparkle of beer and wine;
May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,
Than the foam at the top of the stein."
- Traditional

October 31

"Here’s to the Witches,
Here’s to their cats,
Here’s to the hoot owls
And Whirring bats;
Here’s to the ghosties,
In robes of white,
Here’s to the thrills of
Hallowe’en night."
- Unknown - Happy Halloween!

November 1

"Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk), At home as it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head, And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration, But deliver us from hangovers. For thine is The beer, The bitter, The lager.
Forever and ever,
Barmen."
- The Beer Prayer

November 2

"It is around the drinking table that friends understand best,
the warmth of being together."
- Traditional

November 3

"Twas an evening in November,
As I very well remember.
I was strolling down the street in drunken pride,
But my knees were all aflutter,
So I landed in the gutter,
And a pig came up a lay down by my side.
Yes, I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
When a colleen passing by did softly say,
'You can tell a man that boozes
By the company he chooses.'
At that the pig got up and walked away!"
- Traditional Irish Poem - Irish Pig

November 4

"It's the first drop that destroys you,
there's no harm at all in the last."
- Unknown
 

November 5

"Here is to the fools of the world for without them the rest of us could not succeed."
- Unknown

November 6

"Dogs do it, cats do it,
monkeys have a try.
Mums do it, dads do it,
so why don't you and I?"
- Unknown

November 7

"To good friends
Who know you well
but like you anyway!"
- Unknown

November 8

"Here's to beefsteak when you're hungry,
Whiskey when you're dry,
All the women you'll ever want,
And heaven when you die."
- Traditional Irish

- Variation -

"Here’s to steak when you’re hungry
Whiskey when you’re dry
A lover when you need one
And Heaven when you die."
- Traditional Irish

November 9

"When I think of Heaven
I think of the past
Surrounded by good friends
And raising a glass."
- Traditional
 
November 10

"In the words of Oliver Goldsmith,
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains
With gramMarch and nonsense and learning;
Good liquor I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning."
- In honor of Oliver Goldsmith (November 10th, 1730 - April 4th, 1774), an Anglo-Irish poet.

November 11

"Be good.
If you can't be good, be careful,
And if you can't be careful,
Name it after me."
- Unknown

November 12

"Practice makes perfect, there's many do think,
 but a man's not too perfect when he's practiced at drink."
- Unknown

November 13

"I have known many, & liked not a few,
but loved only one & this toast is to you!"
- Unknown
 
November 14

"Who'd care to be a bee and sip
Sweet honey from the flower's lip
When he might be a fly and steer
Head first into a can of beer?"
- Unknown

November 15

"Here's to the best key for unlocking friendship-whiskey."
- Unknown

November 16

"Drink is the curse of the land...
It makes you fight with your neighbor...
It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him."
- Unknown

November 17

"May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
And may your heart be filled with gladness to cheer you."
- Traditional

November 18

"Why, we'll smoke and drink our beer.
For I like a drop of good beer, I does.
I'ze fond of good beer, I is.
Let gentlemen fine sit down to their wine.
But we'll all of us here stick to our beer."
- Old Somersetshire English song

November 19

"If the ocean was vodka and I was a duck, I'd swim to the bottom and drink it all up, but the ocean's not vodka and I’m not a duck so pass me the bottle & lets get messed up!!"
- Unknown

- Variation -

"If the ocean were whiskey and i were a duck
I'd swim to the bottom and drink my way up
but the ocean's not whiskey and i'm not a duck
so pass me the bottle and shut the f*ck up."
- Unknown

November 20

"Here’s to you and yours,
And to mine and ours,
And if mine and ours ever come
Across you and yours,
I hope you and yours will do
As much for mine and ours,
As mine and ours have done
For you and yours!"
- Traditional

November 21

"Let us acknowledge the evils of alcohol and strive to eliminate it...
one glass at a time."
- Unknown

November 22

"May the circulating bottle never Cause our heads to turn with it."
- Traditional

- Alternative -

"May your bank account always be bigger than your troubles."
- Traditional

November 23

"Here’s to health and prosperity,
To you and all your posterity,
And them that doesn’t drink with sincerity,
That they may be damned for all eternity!"
- Traditional

November 24

"May our stuffing be tasty,
May our turkey be plump,
May our potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May our yams be delicious,
And our pies take the prize,
And may our Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off our thighs!"
- Unknown

- Alternative -

"To wish you joy on this day
And all the whole year through,
For all the best that life can hold
Is none too good for you."
- Traditional - Happy Thanksgiving 2011 (November 22 2012)

November 25

"Don't die of love, in heaven above...
Or hell, they'll not endure you.
Why look so glum when Doctor Rum...
Is waiting for to cure you?"
- Oliver Herford (1863–1935), an American writer.

November 26

"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door."
- Traditional Irish

November 27

"The bubble winked at me and said,
'You’ll miss me brother, when you’re dead.'"
- Oliver Herford (1863–1935), a British-born American writer and artist.

November 28

"Lift 'em high and drain 'em dry
To the guy who says, 'My turn to buy.'"
- Unknown

 - Alternative -
"Gëzuar" "Gezuar"  or "Shëndeti tuaj"
- Albanian, In celebration of Albanian Independence Day November 28th, 1912

November 29

"Keep your head cool and your feet warm,
And a glass of good whiskey will do you no harm."
- Unknown

- Alternative -

"For, whether we're right or whether we're wrong,
There's a rose in every thistle."
- Traditional

November 30

"Here's to it:
The fighting sheen of it,
The yellow, the green of it,
The white, the blue of it,
The swing, the hue of it,
The dark, the red of it.
The fair have sighed for it,
The brave have died for it,
Foeman sought for it,
Heroes fought for it,
Honour the fame of it........ THE TARTAN"
- Traditional - Happy Saint Andrews Day!

- Alternative -

"May you live all the days of your life"
- Jonathan Swift (November 30th, 1667 - October 19th, 1745), an Irish satirist.

December 1

"Here's to the heath, the hill and the heather,
The bonnit, the plaid, the kilt and the feather."
- Traditional Scottish

December 2

"Another day, another bender
No retreat and no surrender
While tomorrow, we'll try to remember
What to forget this day in Decemberember."
- Unknown

- Alternative -
"Shucram"
- Arabic, United Arab Emirates Constitution Day, December 2, 1971

December 3

"We'll think of all the friends we know
And drink to all worth drinking to."
- Unknown

December 4

"May your mornings bring joy
and your evenings bring peace...
May your troubles grow less
as your blessings increase!
May you get all your wishes but one,
so that you will always have something to strive for!"
- Traditional Irish

December 5

"When Christ turned water into wine
There were no drys to scold and whine;
Today prohibitors would rail
And send the Son of God to jail."
- The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on Decemberember 5, 1933

December 6

"What shall we drink to?
...To four in the morning!"
- Unknown

December 7

"Here’s to cold nights, warm friends, and a good drink to give them."
- Anonymous

December 8

"Early to rise and early to bed
makes a male healthy and wealthy
and dead."
- James Grover Thurber (Decemberember 8th, 1894 – November 2nd, 1961), an American author and cartoonist.

December 9

"I do think
we've had enough to drink
now the time is such...
let's drink too much"
- Unknown

December 10

"The horse and mule live thirty years
And never knows of wines and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
Without a taste of scotch or rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at eighteen is mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive three-score years and ten.
And some of us...though mighty few
Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two."
- Unknown

December 11

"To the corkscrew...
a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,
the treasury of laughter,
the front door of fellowship,
and the gate of pleasant folly."
- Unknown
 
December 12

"And there's nothing so desperate, so dull or so drear,
as to sit at the bar, of a pub with no beer
So raise me a glass, as I sit right here
And pray once more, I'll never face that fear."
- Unknown

December 13

"May all your joys be pure joys,
And all your pain Champagne."
- Unknown

December 14

"If all be true as we do think
There are five reasons why we drink:
Good beer, a Friend, or being Dry
Or lest one should be, by and by …
Or any other reason why!"
- Henry Aldrich (1647 – 14 Decemberember 1710) Dean of Christ Church and English philosopher.
 
December 15

"To the holidays—all 365 of them."
- Anonymous

December 16

"Now, thrice welcome, Christmas
Which brings us good cheer,
Mince pies and plum pudding,
Strong ale and strong beer!"
- Anonymous

December 17

"I wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
A pocket full of money
And a cellar full of beer!"
- Traditional

December 18

"Christmas...
Here's to holly and ivy hanging up,
And to something wet in every cup."
- Traditional

December 19

"May you live as long as you Wish,
and have all you Wish as long as you live.
This is my Christmas Wish for you."
- Unknown

December 20

"May your sheep all have lambs but not on Christmas night."
- Traditional Irish

December 21

"Peace and plenty for many a Christmas to come."
- Traditional Irish

December 22

"May you never be without a drop at Christmas."
- Traditional

December 23

"May you be poor in misfortune this Christmas
and rich in blessings
slow to make enemies
quick to make friends
and rich or poor, slow or quick,
as happy as the New Year is long."
- Traditional

- Variation -

"May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
Slow to make enemies,
And quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward."
- Traditional

 December 24

"May your corn stand high as yourself,
your fields grow bigger with rain,
and the Marche know its own way home on Christmas night."
- Traditional Irish

- Alternative -

"I know I've wished you this before
But every year I wish it more,
A Merry Christmas."
- Unknown

December 25

"A Christmas wish...
May you never forget what is worth remembering
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Traditional

December 26

"Here's wishing you more happiness
Than all my words can tell,
Not just alone for Christmas
But for all the year as well."
- Traditional

December 27

"I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; 
a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time;
a time when men and women seem by one consent...
to open their hearts freely;
and so I say 'God bless Christmas'."
- Charles Dickens

December 28

"We've holidays and holy days, and memory days galore;
And when we've toasted every one, I offer just one more.
So let us lift our glasses high, and drink a silent toast-
The day, deep buried in each heart, that each one loves the most."
- Unknown

December 29

"Then let us be merry and taste the good cheer,
And remember old Christmas comes but once a year."
- Unknown

December 30

"In the year ahead,
May we treat our friends with kindness
and our enemies with generosity."
- Traditional

- 2 -

"Tagalog Mabuhay" Translation: "Long life"
- Phillipines - Rizal Day "Araw ng Kabayanihan ni Dr. José Rizal"  (Death anniversary of National hero José Rizal)

- 3 -
"Gayola"
- Asturian - December 30, 1981, Asturias became an Autonomous Community

December 31

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min',
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And here's a hand, my trusty fierce,
And gie's a hand o' thine,
And we'll tak' a right guid willie-waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,

We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And surely ye'll be your pint stowpt,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne."
- Robert Burns

- Alternative -

"Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit!"
Translation : "May we be alive at this time next year.
A prosperous New Year!"
- Traditional Irish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

- Alternative -
"Hey is Jambo", "Rathima andu atene"
- Kikuyu - Kenya (December 12 is Jamhuri Day)
- Alternative -
"Gesondheid" or "Amandla"
- Afrikaans - (May 31 is Republic Day, South Africa)
- Alternative -
"Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo"
- In Celebration of the May Revolution, Argentina, May 25, 1810
- Alternative -
"Cheers" or "Bottoms Up"
- Traditional USA, In Celebration of Independence Day July 4
 - Americans with German roots say "Prost", Irish roots "Slainte", Italian/Latin Roots- "Salute"
- Alternative -
"Gëzuar" "Gezuar"  or "Shëndeti tuaj"
- Albanian, In celebration of Albanian Independence Day November 28th, 1912
- Alternative -
"Shucram"
- Arabic, United Arab Emirates Constitution Day, December 2, 1971
- Alternative -
"Genatzt" or "Genatset" or "Genatsoot" ("Life")
- Armenian, Republic Day - Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, May 28th
- Alternative -
"Gayola"
Asturian - December 30, 1981, Asturias became an Autonomous Community
- Alternative -
"Prosit" or "Prost" (German) or "Zum Wohl"
- In Celebration of Austrian National Day (day of the Declaration of Neutrality) October 26th.
- Alternative -
" AWA AWA !!! klinke klanke glasset i bordet gentagne gange ...
 et AWA i en sætning udløser en skål."
- Afiyæt oslun / In Celebration of Azerbaijan Republic Day May 28th.
- Alternative -
"Cheers" or  "Cherio"
- In Celebration of Australia Day January 26th
- Alternative -
"Pro"
- Bahasa / In Celebration of Indonesia Independence Day August 17th
- Alternative -
"Vashi"
- Baluchi - Iran In Celebration of Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979
- Alternative -
"Op uw gezondheid' (Flemish/Dutch) or "A Votre Sante" (French)
- In Celebration of Belgium's National Holiday, Commemorating the ascension to the throne of Belgium's first king Leopold I on July 21st 
- Alternative -
"Joy"
- Bengali / Bangla New Year's Day April 14th

 

Basque On egin
 Topa

Belize (English)? cheers
- Friday Saint George's Caye Day or "National Day" fixed at September 10 (see Note 1)
- Tuesday Independence Day fixed at September 21 (see Note 1)

 

Bolivia  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Independence Day Dia de la Patria August 6th.

Bosnian - Zivjeli
- 1 Marchch - Independence day - Dan nezavisnosti (Only Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 9 January - Republic Day - Dan Republike (only Republika Srpska)


Brazilian Saude, Viva
 (Spain, France) Topa
 Saúde (Brazil)(to your health)
 Tim-tim (Brazil)
- Independence Day7 September

Arabic Fisehatak (to your health) /

Breton - Yec'hed mat
- Saint Anne  Feast July 26 
- Troménie is a pilgrimage festival, involving a huge procession, which features the banners of participating parishes. Held every six years between the second and third Sundays in July


Brunei Darussalam (Malay)?

Bulgarian Na zdrave (to your health)(Nazdrave ?)
- 22 September – Independence Day


Canada Cheers
- 1 July – Canada Day

 
Caribbean ?

Catalan (Spain) (Spanish)? Salut
 Txin txin
 Sant Hilari, Sant Hilari, fill de puta qui no se l'acabi
 ("Son of a bitch the one that does not finish the cup", vulgar)
- Statute of Autonomy 9 August 2006

Chile  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 18 September – Independence Day


Chinese Nien Nien nu e. Kong Chien
 Chinese Yung sing ("drink and win")
 (Cantonese) Gom bui ("dry the cup")
 Chinese Gan bei ("dry the cup")
 Mandarin : Gan bei
 or Kong chien.
 Mandarin:  Gan bei! (<?Gan Bay) To an empty glass!
    October 1 to October 3 National Day
    Chineese New Year February 10, 2013, January 31, 2014

Colombia  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Decemberlaration of Independence July 20th


Cornish Yeghes da
- Saint Piran's Day Feast Marchch 5th.

Costa Rica "Pura Vida" (pure life) which they use for everything.
  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September – Independence Day


Creole - Salud
"Fat Tuesday" or "Marchdi Gras Day"

Croatian Zivjeli (write a small v above the Z)
 Zivjeli / U zdravlje
 8 October – Independence Day – Dan neovisnosti


Serbo-Croat:  Ziveli! (Zhi-vol-ee) To Life!
 2/15 Serbia National Day
 October 8 Independence Day - Croatia
 June 25 Statehood Day - Croatia


Czech Na zdraví (to your health)
 Czechoslovakian Na Zdravi, Nazdar
 Czech:  Na Zdravi (Na zdrah vi) To Your Health
    October 28 Independent Czechoslovak State Day
    9/28 St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Statehood Day)
    1/1 Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State

DenMarchk / Danish / Dansk Skaal / Skål
 Bunden i vejret eller resten i håret (Bottoms up or the rest in your hair.)
- 5 June (Constitution of 1849)

 
Dominican Republic  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 27 February – Independence Day

Dutch
 (Netherlands)
 (Belgium) Proost. Proost, Geluk, or Gezondheid
 Dutch (Flemish) Proost
 Gezondheid (to your health)
 In pure dutch (netherlands) you should say, 'gezondheid' but more common is 'proost'. Any othter expresion in any  language can be and will be used. As long as we can drink it will be OK.
- Netherlands (country) 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday), 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)


 

Egyptian - Fee sihetak
Bisochtak
Esperanto Sanon
- 23 July (Revolution Day, the revolution of 1952), 6 October (Armed Forces Day, the beginning of the October War 1973)


El Salvador  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

English Cheers Cheerio (UK) - Lets toast
Here's mud in your eye (UK, vulgar)(expr. may be from Bible, John 9:1-41)
Bottoms up (USA)
Down the hatch (vulgar)
Hey howdy (Arizona, informal)
Esperanto Je via sano (to your health) (constructed) Toston ("(I propose) a toast")
- April 23rd St George's Day

Estonian Tervist
(Teie) terviseks (to your health)
(Teie terviseks)
- 24 February (Independence Day, Decemberlaration of independence from the Russia 1918)


Ethiopia they says T'chen chen
- 28 May (Downfall of the Derg Day, the Derg regime is defeated 1991)


Ecuador  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 10 August (Proclamation of independence from Spain 1809)

 

Farsi Ba'sal'a'ma'ti


Faroese / Faeroese Skál
(DenMarchk) 29 July (Ólavsøka (Saint Olaf's death at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030): opening of the Løgting (parliament) session)


Finnish (Suomi)
Finland "Kippis" is indeed a good translation for "cheers", being very informal. "Maljanne" translates approximately as "A toast to you [Sir]", the polite form of address being implied by the suffix "nne". One might also say "n malja!", meaning "A toast to !". To say that these forms are never used in Finland is simply incorrect; their place is at a formal dinner party, for example. "Pohjanmaan kautta" might possibly be derived from a historical event: literally translated it means "By way of Ostrobothnia", and Ostrobothnia is precisely the way by which Finnish Jäger troops of the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion came back from training in Germany, to contribute to the victory of the "whites" in the Finnish Civil War. On the other hand, it might simply be derived from the fact that "Pohja" literally means bottom, therefore "Pohjanmaan kautta" means "bottoms up". Also, while "terveydeksi" does mean "to your health", it is to my knowledge used exclusively when someone sneezes, like gesundheit or bless you. It might, however, appear as part of a more elaborate toast.
Thank you to : Ilkka Poutanen
Kippis. Maljanne
Kippis is the most common way to say cheers but "maljanne" is very rear. It is very polite way to say your toast. That is never used in Finland.
There is also "Hölkyn kölkyn". It doesn't mean anything but it sounds funny. That is used when you want to be funny or if you want to make foreign tourists to laugh.
"Pohjanmaan kautta" means bottoms up. Pohjanmaa is a large area in the north west Finland. "Pohjanmaan kautta" is widely used E.g when you drink vodka.
Thank you to Juha Nieminen
Kippis Terveydeksi (formal) (to your health)
- 6 Decemberember (Independence Day, Decemberlaration of independence from Russia 1917)


French / France A votre sante
(À votre) santé (to your health) À la votre (response "And to yours")
À votre santé / Santé
French:  A Votre Sante! (Ah Vot-ruh Sahn-tay) To Your Health!
- July 14 Bastille Day - France  
- 14 July (Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790)


Frisian Tsjoch (Netherlands)
- Netherlands (country) 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday), 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)

 

Gaelic (Ireland) Sláinte (to your health)
3/17
Gaelic (Scotland) Slaandjivaa (to your health) Slainte mhoiz
November 30
Slainte Mhor (Slainte vor) / Slainte Mhath

Galician (Spain) Saúde / Chinchín / Saúde

Georgian Vielen danke zu Dr.Wilram Tiemann :

Der Georgier sagt: "vakhtanguri", wir sagen "prost", der Engländer "cheers" und der Däne "ska&ål". Dies ist nicht richtig. Der Georgier sagt zu einer Gruppe vonm Menschen: "GauMarchdschoss". Dies bedeutet: "man möge siegen". Zu einer Einzelperson sagt der Georgier: "GagiMarchdschoss", das soviel wie "du mögest siegen" bedeutet. Also in kartuli ena (=georgischer Sprache) heißt "prost": GauMarchdschoss. Michail Saakaschwili oder Aduard Schewardnadse würden nie: "vakhtaanguri" sagen . "vakhtanguri" sagen nur die im Landesteil Gurian lebenden Menschen. Diese haben auch einen eigenen Dialekt. Guria liegt im Südwesten von Georgien. Woher ich das alles weiß? Meinen Freund, ein deutscher Offizier, der mehrere Jahre dort leben mußte, wollte ich mit dem Wort " vakhtanguri" überraschen. Dann wurde ich aufgeklärt. Mit freundlichen Grüßen und "prost" oder besser "ska°l". Ihr Dr.Wilram Tiemann

Most common : GagiMarchdschoss / GauMarchdschoss Only in some parts of Georgien (Vakhtanguri)

 
German (Germany) Prost (beer)
Zum Wohl (wine) (to your health)
Hau weg den Scheiss (vulgar)
I would pretty much prefer the first (common) one as the second one is never used at all. You should remove it. 'Gruss Got' is used to welcome a person but not at all in the sense of 'cheers'.

From Stefan Brede
In Germany we have different ways to say "Cheers" or "Slainte", depending on the kind of drink as well as on the occasion. For BEER: "Prost!" (no matter at which occasion). For WINE: "Prost" with friends, "Zum Wohl" in a more formal environment. For COCKTAILS: Here we often use a toast, for example: "Auf uns!" (To us!) or "Auf Dich!" (To you!). For SCHNAPS: Here we often say something like "Und weg!" or "Hau' weg das Zeug!" (Down the hatch!), but "Prost!" is fine as well. For WHISKY: We never say "Prost!" with Whisky. Rather, we use "Cheers!" or a toast, like "Auf Schottland!" (To Scotland!).

Old info : Prosit. Auf ihr wohl - Gruß got. - Prost ?

German:  Prosit! (Proh-sit) Cheers!
 October 3 Unity Day  (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)
 October 31 Reformation Day (Reformationstag)
 August   8 Peace Festival (Friedensfest)


Greek Eis Igian
Greek:  Stin Eyiassou! (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh) To Your Health!
    October 28 The "Ohi day"
    3/25 25th of Marchch  
 Stin ijiasas
 Jamas
 Gia'sou

Greenlandic Kassutta ("Let our glasses meet")  Imeqatigiitta ("Let's drink together")  Kasugta
- Greenland (DenMarchk) 21 June National Day

Guatemala  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Guatemala 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

Guyana In Guyana, as well as Trinidad, the people speak english. So Cheers is the same in both those countries
- Guyana 23 February (Republic Day, also known as Mashramani, republic 1970)


Hawaiian Okole maluna - Okole malune
- Kamehameha Day on June 11

Hipahipa ?

Hebrew L'chaim ("To life") (Le'chaim) L'Chaim! (Le Hy-em) To Life!
    Rosh Hashanah - sunset, September 28 – sunset, September 30
    Yom Kippur - Sunset, October 7 – nightfall, October 8

Hindi Apki Lambi UMarch Ke Liye
- 26 January (Republic Day, becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations 1950),
- 15 August (Independence Day, from the British Empire 1947)


Holooe Kam-poe ?


Honduras  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Honduras 15 September (Independence from Kingdom of Spain 1821)

Hungarian Kedves egeszsegere
 Le! Le! Le! Egeszsegere (Lay Lay Lay Egg-esh Ay-ged-reh) Down! Down! Down! To your health!
     October 23 Hungary - National Day (since 1989)
     3/15 Hungary - National Day (traditional)
     August   20 Hungary - St Stephen Day
 Egészségedre (sing.) (to your health)
 Egészségetekre (plur.) (to your health)


Icelandic Skál (Santanka nu)
- 17 June (National Day, founding of republic and dissolution of personal union with DenMarchk 1944)

Ido Ye vua saneso

Indian A la sature
- India 26 January (Republic Day, becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations 1950),
- 15 August (Independence Day, from the British Empire 1947)


Indonesia Pro ( They sometimes say tos (sounds like "toss" back that drink))
- 17 August (Proclamation of Independence day, (Hari Proklamasi Kemerdekaan R.I.), from Japan and the Netherlands 1945)

Interlingua A vostre sanitate (to your health)
 (constructed) A vostre salute

Ireland Sláinte (to your health)  (slawn-cha)
    3/17 St Patricks Day
    4/24 Independence Decemberlared 1916
   December 6  iNDEPENDENCE Recognised 1922
    December 19 Constitution dAY 1937
    4/18 Republic dAY 1949

In Northern Ireland (Ulster) there are three main offical languages : English,Irish and Ulster-Scots
 Cheers in Northern Ireland (Ulster) is Slainte! (to your health) in Irish AND "Guid forder!" (good luck) in Ulster-Scots.
 Irish Gaelic (Sláinte)
- 17 Marchch (St. Patrick's Day),
- 12 July (Battle of the Boyne Day)

 
Israel L'Chaim! (To Life!)
 Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem day
 Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance day
 Yom Hazikaron — Memorial Day
 Yom Ha'atzmaut — Israel Independence Day


Italian / Italy Cin cin (formal)
 Salute (informal)
 cento di questi giorni - may you live a hundred years
 Cent' anni - (americanized) a hundred years alla salute! - to health
 cin cin - a call to touch glasses, from the sound the glasses make.
 ICin! Cin! (Chin Chin) Cheers!
     June 2 Republic Day
Japan / Nippon Kampai / Campai / Most used - Kampai. / Banzai
 Kampai! (Kam-pie) To an empty glass!
      2/11National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinen no Hi)


Jamaica
- Jamaica 1st Monday in August (Independence from the United Kingdom 6 August 1962)


Kikuyu (Kenya) - Rathima andu atene
- 12 Decemberember (Independence Day, from the United Kingdom 1963; Republic Day, (Jamhuri Day), 1964)

Korean - Chukbae
- 15 August (both the liberation from Japanese rule 1945 (Gwangbokjeol) and the Decemberlaration of the South Korean state 1948),
- 3 October (Gaecheonjeol, the ancient Korea founded in 2333 BC),
- 1 Marchch (Decemberlaration of independence of modern Korea and the Marchch 1st movement)

- North Korea 9 September (Decemberlaration of a democratic people's republic 1948)
Kong gang ul wi ha yo

Konbe


Latin Sanitas bona (to your health)
Bene tibi

Latin American spanish : Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Latvian Uz veselibu (Prieka)
- 18 November (Decemberlaration of independence from Russia 1918)

Lebanese Kesak (sing.) Keskun (plur.)
- 22 November (Independence from France 1943),25 May (Resistance and Liberation Day from Israel 2000)

Liechtenstein (German)?
- 15 August (The Hereditary Prince becomes Regent 2004)

Lithuanian -  i sveikata/ buk sveikas
- 16 February (Lithuanian State Reestablishment Day, Decemberlaration of independence from Russia and Germany 1918)

Luxembourg ? Prost! : (Prohst) (German)
- 23 June (the Monarch's birthday)


Macedonian - Na zdravje! (to your health).
- 8 September (Den na nezavisnosta or Ден на независноста, Decemberlaration of independence from Yugoslavia 1991)

Malay  (Brunei Darussalam)

Malaysia In "Bahasa Melayu"  "malay language"). "Minum!". Which means "drink!".
- 31 August (Hari Merdeka, independence (within the Commonwealth) from the United Kingdom 1957) and
- 16 September (Malaysia Day, the formation of Malaysia)


Maltese - Cheers  - Aviva (old fashioned)
- 21 September (Independence Day, independence from the United Kingdom 1964),
- 31 Marchch (Freedom Day, withdrawal of British troops from Malta 1979),
- 13 Decemberember (Republic Day, republican constitution of 1974, therefore becoming a republic),
- 7 June (Sette Giugno, bread riot of 1919 where 4 Maltese men died),
- 8 September (Victory Day, victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Great Siege of Malta 1565; Italian government publicly announced agreement to an armistice with the WWII Allies, therefore ending the attacks on Malta by the Italians 1943)


Maori (NZ)- Kia Ora  'Greeting meaning Good Health'
- Waitangi Day - Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840- The Treaty made New Zealand a part of the British Empire, guaranteed Māori rights to their land and gave Māori the rights of British subjects
 
Mexican / Mexico - Salud  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 16 September (Grito de Dolores, Decemberlaration of independence from Spain 1810)

Monaco (French)?
Monégasque national anthem,
Despoei tugiù sciü d'u nostru paise
Se ride au ventu, u meme pavayùn
Despoei tugiù a curù russa e gianca
E stà l'emblema, d'a nostra libertà
Grandi e i piciui, l'an sempre respetà

Forever, in our land,
One flag has flown in the wind
Forever, the colours red and white
Have symbolised our liberty
Great and small [people] have always respected them.
- 19 November (the levée of Prince Albert II 2005)

Moroccan / Marchokko Saha wa'afiab
- 2 Marchch (Independence from France 1956)


Netherland See Dutch
Netherlands (country)
- 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday),
- 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)

 

Nicaragua  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Skal
Skål
- 17 May (Constitution Day, the signing of the first Norwegian Constitution in Eidsvoll 1814)

Occitan A la vòstra
 

Pakistani Sanda bashi


Panama  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Paraguay  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Persian (Iran) (Be) salam ati (to your health) Nush ("Enjoy it, and let it be part of your body")

Paru  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Philippines Mabuhay

Polish Na zdrowie. Vivat
 Na zdrowie (to your health)
 Na zdrowie! [Naz-droh-vee-ay] To your health!
  May 3 Constitution Day
   November 11 Independence Day

Portuguese A sia saide
 Saude (to your health)
 Tchim-tchim
 Saude (Sow-ooh-jee) Cheers!
    4/25 Freedom Day (Portugual)
    June 10    Portugal Day
    October 5  Republic Day
    December 1 Restoration of Independence

Puerto Rico - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo


Quatar Hmmm alcohol is not alowed here..


Rhaeto-Romanic Viva

Romanian Noroc ("Good luck")

Russian (CCCP)
 Zdorovie (Zdo-ro-vee) To your health!
 June 12 Russia Day (somewhat similar to independence day)
 May 9 Victory Day, Russia celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany
 2/23 Defender of the Fatherland Day  AKA  Defender of the Motherland Day
 November 4 Unity Day commemorates the popular uprising led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky which ejected the
 Polish invaders from Moscow in November of 1612
 No one says "Na zdorovje" as a Russian drinking cheer.
 no universal drinking cheer in Russian
 Sometimes they say "Budem zdorovy" meaning "Let's stay healthy". Which sometimes is shortened to just "Budem"   (see Ukranian version).
 or "Chtob vse byli zdorovy", i.e. "Let everybody be healthy". Thanks to Dmitry 
 Vashe zdorovie
 

Sesotho Nqa

Scotland Slainte
 or Slainte Mhor (even more)
 Toast ir Cheers in Scotland is Slainte Mhath! (Good Health). The response is Slainte Mhor! (Great Health).
 Scottish Slainte. Here's tae ye
 Scotish:  Hoot mon
 November 30 St. Andrew's Day  a bank holiday in Scotland.
Serbian Zivio Ziveli - In Serbian, cheers is 'Ziveli', pronounced 'zjee-ve-lee', meaning 'Let's live long!'
 (Old : Zivjeli / U zdravlje)
 Serbo-Croat:  Ziveli! (Zhi-vol-ee) To Life!
 2/15 Serbia National Day
 October 8 Independence Day - Croatia
 June 25 Statehood Day - Croatia
Slovak
 (Slovakia) Na zdravie (to your health) / Stolicka! [stolitschka]

Slovenian Na zdravje (to your health)

Somalian Auguryo

South African (Afrikaans) There are 11 official languages
 English - cheers
 Afrikaans - Gesondheid
 Amandla - other 9
 Gesondheid (to your health)

Spanish Salud
 Chin chin
 "Salud" although it can be used as a toast, it literally means "Health". Salud is also said when someone sneezes.
 Arriba, abajo, al centro, para adentro ("Up, down, center, inside", vulgar)
 Spanish:  Salud! (Sah-lud) To your health!
Sri Lanka (Sinhala) Seiradewa

Suomi (Finland) see Finnish

Swahili Afya / Vifijo

Swedish:  Skal! (Skoll) Cheers!
 June 6 National Day of Sweden (Sveriges nationaldag)
 Svenska / Swedish  Skål - Skaal
 Helan går (Everything goes)

Swahili Maisha Marchefu - good life or cheers ( Afya! Vifijo! )

Switzerland / Swiss As you might know, there are 4 language-parts in Switzerland (Swissgerman, French, Italian, and  Rätoromanisch) But that's not all, there are also a lot of diffrent dialects here. I'm living in the german part and speak  a dialect called "Bärndütsch", so here we go: Cheers = Proscht, Zum Wohl, Gsundheit (the last two means to your  health). For the other dialects it's mostly the same, only the accent changs a little bit.

 
Taiwanese: Hotala!
 1/1 Founding Day (Founding of Republic of China on January 1, 1912)
 2/28 Peace Memorial Day (228 Incident on February 28, 1947)
 4/4 The Combined Holidays of Women's Day & Children's Day
 *4/4, 5 or 6 Tomb Sweeping Day 15 days after the spring equinox
 October 10 National Celebration Day (Double Tenth Day)


Thai /Thailand Choc-tee
 hallo or hey : Sawadekaa - (to male) Sawadekap (Female)
 Chook-die / Sawasdi

Turkish Serefe (write cedille under S) ("To honor")

Sagligina (sing.) (write bars over g's, remove dots over i's) (to your health)
Sagliginiza (plur. or polite) (to your health)

Trinidad In Trinidad, as well as Guyana, the people speak english.
 So Cheers is the same in both those countries

Ukrainian In Ukraine we say 'Budmo!'. This means approximately 'shall we live forever!' Usually, one person says 'Budmo!' and  everybody at the table/party answers 'Hey!' (the meaning is straightforward). This repeats for up to 3 times  depending on the mood of the crowd. Only then, everybody empties their glasses.
 (Old : Na zdorov'ya)

United Arab Emirates (Arab) Shucram

United Kingdom - Cheers
United States of America/USA Cheers (se also American)

Urdu (Pakistan) Djam

Uruguay - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Uyghur Hoshe (Cheers)
Salametlikingiz ucun (For your health)
 Thank you to : Memet Tursun Zunun


Venezuela (Spanish - Latin American)

Vietnamese Chia
 Can chén (write dot under a) (North V.N.)
 Can ly (write dot under a) (South V.N.)


Welsh Iechyd da
 Iechyd da
 Wales (Welsh)

 

Yiddish Mazel tov Lechaym (Lechaim)
 Zei Gazunt! (Zye Gah-zoont) To your health!
 Rosh Hashanah — The Jewish New Year
 Aseret Yemei Teshuva — Ten Days of Repentance
 Erev Yom Kippur
 Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement
 Sukkot — Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)
  Erev Sukkot — 14 Tishrei
  Sukkot 15
 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
 Erev Hanukkah — 24 Kislev
 Hanukkah (חנוכה‎) — 25 Kislev – 2 or 3 Tevet
 Tenth of Tevet
 Tu Bishvat — New Year of the Trees 15 Shevat
 Purim — Festival of Lots
  Erev Purim and Fast of Esther known as "Ta'anit Ester" — 13 Adar
  Purim (פורים‎) — 14 Adar
  Shushan Purim 15 Adar
  In leap years on the Hebrew calendar, Purim is observed in the Second Adar (Adar Sheni).
 New Year for Kings
  1 Nisan
 Pesach — Passover
  Erev Pesach and Fast of the Firstborn known as "Ta'anit Bechorim" — 14 Nisan
  Passover (Hebrew: Pesach, פסח) (first two days) — 15 and 16 Nisan
  The "Last days of Passover", known as Acharon shel Pesach, are also a holiday commemorating K'riat Yam   Suf, the Passage of the Red Sea. — 21 and 22 Nisan
  The semi-holiday days between the "first days" and the "last days" of Passover are known as Chol Hamo'ed,   referred to as the "Intermediate days".
 Sefirah — Counting of the Omer
 Lag Ba'omer - 33rd day in the Omer count
 Shavuot — Feast of Weeks — Yom HaBikurim
  Erev Shavuot — 5 Sivan
  Shavuot (שבועות‎) — 6, 7 Sivan
 Seventeenth of Tammuz
 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
 Tisha B'av — Ninth of Av
 Tithe of animals - 1 Elul
 Shabbat — The Sabbath —
 Acharei hachagim — "after the holidays"

Yugoslavian Ziveo / Ziveli (Though country is split up now word is still in use.)


Zimbbabwe ?

Zulu Oogy wawa (ooggywawa or oogywawa)

 

One historian, Paul Dickson, insists that the modern toast got its start in Bath, England in 1709. The city is named for its magnificent Roman baths, which are reputed to have the power to heal the sick. According to Dickson, an attractive young woman set out to bathe one day. A local lad was so struck by her beauty that he raised up a glass of her bath water and drank it in her honor.
If this is true, then we narrowly avoided a very different custom for our group celebrations. It is easy, if distasteful, to imagine a wedding reception at which both the bride and the groom immerse themselves in a vat of water from which all their guests must cheerfully drink. Hopefully, they would throw in a few croutons to improve the taste. Instead, briefly, toasting became a magnificent tradition. While occasionally falling out of favor (toasting was outlawed by Charles the Great, Maximillian, Charles V, Louis XIV and the entirety of colonial Massachusetts), a well-crafted toast has become a nearly-universal source of pride. From the simplest (a hearty cry of skäl in Sweden or banzai in Japan) to the winding, poetic, hour-long toasts that briefly came into vogue in Ireland, it has been a long time since the hunting gods took any pleasure in the practice. There was a period when no party would be complete without the local wags raising their glasses and reciting a few dozen well-rehearsed toasts they had memorized. We would like to see this practice return, and to that end we offer up a few of our favorites. View these as a starting point; collections of clever sayings and artful witticisms abound, waiting for someone to recite them while holding a liquor glass high into the air.

 

 

 


 

Africa Kenya - hey is Jambo   Kikuyu (Kenya) Rathima andu atene
- 12/12 Jamhuri Day


South African : There are 11 official languages English - cheers Afrikaans - Gesondheid and try the word Amandla for the other 9
- 5/31 Republic Day
 
Argentina  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- May Revolution May 25, 1810

America Cheers or Bottoms Up
- Independence Day 7/4
 Wisconsin that has very strong German roots and everyone toasts, almost without fail; "Prost"
 Italian/Latin Roots- Salute
 Irish Roots  - Slainte
 
Albanian Gëzuar / Gezuar  or Shëndeti tuaj
- Independence Day November 28th, 1912

Arabic Fisehatak (to your health) / Shucram (United Arab Emirates)
- Constitution Day UAE December 2, 1971
 
Armenian Genatzt (or Genatset / Genatsoot ("Life"))
- Republic Day Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Armenia May 28th

Asturian - Gayola
On December 30, 1981,[1] Asturias became an Autonomous Community

Austrian / Austria Prosit - Prost (German) / Zum Wohl
- Austrian National Day (day of the Declaration of Neutrality) October 26th.
- Men's World Day was observed in Austria in the first week of November annually in the years 2000–2004


Azerbaijani  Afiyæt oslun
 AWA AWA !!! klinke klanke glasset i bordet gentagne gange ...
 et AWA i en sætning udløser en skål.
- Republic Day May 28th.

Australia Cheers ? Cherio
- Australia Day January 26th


Bahasa (Indonesia) Pro
- Independence Day August 17th

Baluchi (Iran) Vashi
- Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979

Basque On egin
 Topa

Belgian / Belgium 'Op uw gezondheid' is fine for the Flemish (Dutch speaking) part of the country but for the other half, the  French speaking people, it's the same as for France 'A VOTRE SANTE', although there are of course many other expressions.
- National Holiday – commemorating the ascension to the throne of Belgium's first king Leopold I  July 21st 


Belize (English)? cheers
- Friday Saint George's Caye Day or "National Day" fixed at September 10 (see Note 1)
- Tuesday Independence Day fixed at September 21 (see Note 1)


Bengali - Joy
- Bengali Bangla New Year's Day April 14th

Bolivia  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Independence Day Dia de la Patria August 6th.

Bosnian - Zivjeli
- 1 March - Independence day - Dan nezavisnosti (Only Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 9 January - Republic Day - Dan Republike (only Republika Srpska)


Brazilian Saude, Viva
 (Spain, France) Topa
 Saúde (Brazil)(to your health)
 Tim-tim (Brazil)
- Independence Day7 September


Breton - Yec'hed mat
- Saint Anne  Feast July 26 
- Troménie is a pilgrimage festival, involving a huge procession, which features the banners of participating parishes. Held every six years between the second and third Sundays in July


Brunei Darussalam (Malay)?

Bulgarian Na zdrave (to your health)(Nazdrave ?)
- 22 September – Independence Day


Canada Cheers
- 1 July – Canada Day

 
Caribbean ?

Catalan (Spain) (Spanish)? Salut
 Txin txin
 Sant Hilari, Sant Hilari, fill de puta qui no se l'acabi
 ("Son of a bitch the one that does not finish the cup", vulgar)
- Statute of Autonomy 9 August 2006

Chile  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 18 September – Independence Day


Chinese Nien Nien nu e. Kong Chien
 Chinese Yung sing ("drink and win")
 (Cantonese) Gom bui ("dry the cup")
 Chinese Gan bei ("dry the cup")
 Mandarin : Gan bei
 or Kong chien.
 Mandarin:  Gan bei! (<?Gan Bay) To an empty glass!
    10/1 to 10/3 National Day
    Chineese New Year February 10, 2013, January 31, 2014

Colombia  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Declaration of Independence July 20th


Cornish Yeghes da
- Saint Piran's Day Feast March 5th.

Costa Rica "Pura Vida" (pure life) which they use for everything.
  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September – Independence Day


Creole - Salud
"Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras Day"

Croatian Zivjeli (write a small v above the Z)
 Zivjeli / U zdravlje
 8 October – Independence Day – Dan neovisnosti


Serbo-Croat:  Ziveli! (Zhi-vol-ee) To Life!
 2/15 Serbia National Day
 10/8 Independence Day - Croatia
 6/25 Statehood Day - Croatia


Czech Na zdraví (to your health)
 Czechoslovakian Na Zdravi, Nazdar
 Czech:  Na Zdravi (Na zdrah vi) To Your Health
    10/28 Independent Czechoslovak State Day
    9/28 St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Statehood Day)
    1/1 Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State

Denmark / Danish / Dansk Skaal / Skål
 Bunden i vejret eller resten i håret (Bottoms up or the rest in your hair.)
- 5 June (Constitution of 1849)

 
Dominican Republic  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 27 February – Independence Day

Dutch
 (Netherlands)
 (Belgium) Proost. Proost, Geluk, or Gezondheid
 Dutch (Flemish) Proost
 Gezondheid (to your health)
 In pure dutch (netherlands) you should say, 'gezondheid' but more common is 'proost'. Any othter expresion in any  language can be and will be used. As long as we can drink it will be OK.
- Netherlands (country) 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday), 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)


 

Egyptian - Fee sihetak
Bisochtak
Esperanto Sanon
- 23 July (Revolution Day, the revolution of 1952), 6 October (Armed Forces Day, the beginning of the October War 1973)


El Salvador  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

English Cheers Cheerio (UK) - Lets toast
Here's mud in your eye (UK, vulgar)(expr. may be from Bible, John 9:1-41)
Bottoms up (USA)
Down the hatch (vulgar)
Hey howdy (Arizona, informal)
Esperanto Je via sano (to your health) (constructed) Toston ("(I propose) a toast")
- April 23rd St George's Day

Estonian Tervist
(Teie) terviseks (to your health)
(Teie terviseks)
- 24 February (Independence Day, declaration of independence from the Russia 1918)


Ethiopia they says T'chen chen
- 28 May (Downfall of the Derg Day, the Derg regime is defeated 1991)


Ecuador  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 10 August (Proclamation of independence from Spain 1809)

 

Farsi Ba'sal'a'ma'ti


Faroese / Faeroese Skál
(Denmark) 29 July (Ólavsøka (Saint Olaf's death at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030): opening of the Løgting (parliament) session)


Finnish (Suomi)
Finland "Kippis" is indeed a good translation for "cheers", being very informal. "Maljanne" translates approximately as "A toast to you [Sir]", the polite form of address being implied by the suffix "nne". One might also say "n malja!", meaning "A toast to !". To say that these forms are never used in Finland is simply incorrect; their place is at a formal dinner party, for example. "Pohjanmaan kautta" might possibly be derived from a historical event: literally translated it means "By way of Ostrobothnia", and Ostrobothnia is precisely the way by which Finnish Jäger troops of the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion came back from training in Germany, to contribute to the victory of the "whites" in the Finnish Civil War. On the other hand, it might simply be derived from the fact that "Pohja" literally means bottom, therefore "Pohjanmaan kautta" means "bottoms up". Also, while "terveydeksi" does mean "to your health", it is to my knowledge used exclusively when someone sneezes, like gesundheit or bless you. It might, however, appear as part of a more elaborate toast.
Thank you to : Ilkka Poutanen
Kippis. Maljanne
Kippis is the most common way to say cheers but "maljanne" is very rear. It is very polite way to say your toast. That is never used in Finland.
There is also "Hölkyn kölkyn". It doesn't mean anything but it sounds funny. That is used when you want to be funny or if you want to make foreign tourists to laugh.
"Pohjanmaan kautta" means bottoms up. Pohjanmaa is a large area in the north west Finland. "Pohjanmaan kautta" is widely used E.g when you drink vodka.
Thank you to Juha Nieminen
Kippis Terveydeksi (formal) (to your health)
- 6 December (Independence Day, declaration of independence from Russia 1917)


French / France A votre sante
(À votre) santé (to your health) À la votre (response "And to yours")
À votre santé / Santé
French:  A Votre Sante! (Ah Vot-ruh Sahn-tay) To Your Health!
- 7/14 Bastille Day - France  
- 14 July (Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790)


Frisian Tsjoch (Netherlands)
- Netherlands (country) 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday), 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)

 

Gaelic (Ireland) Sláinte (to your health)
3/17
Gaelic (Scotland) Slaandjivaa (to your health) Slainte mhoiz
11/30
Slainte Mhor (Slainte vor) / Slainte Mhath

Galician (Spain) Saúde / Chinchín / Saúde

Georgian Vielen danke zu Dr.Wilram Tiemann :

Der Georgier sagt: "vakhtanguri", wir sagen "prost", der Engländer "cheers" und der Däne "ska&ål". Dies ist nicht richtig. Der Georgier sagt zu einer Gruppe vonm Menschen: "Gaumardschoss". Dies bedeutet: "man möge siegen". Zu einer Einzelperson sagt der Georgier: "Gagimardschoss", das soviel wie "du mögest siegen" bedeutet. Also in kartuli ena (=georgischer Sprache) heißt "prost": Gaumardschoss. Michail Saakaschwili oder Aduard Schewardnadse würden nie: "vakhtaanguri" sagen . "vakhtanguri" sagen nur die im Landesteil Gurian lebenden Menschen. Diese haben auch einen eigenen Dialekt. Guria liegt im Südwesten von Georgien. Woher ich das alles weiß? Meinen Freund, ein deutscher Offizier, der mehrere Jahre dort leben mußte, wollte ich mit dem Wort " vakhtanguri" überraschen. Dann wurde ich aufgeklärt. Mit freundlichen Grüßen und "prost" oder besser "ska°l". Ihr Dr.Wilram Tiemann

Most common : Gagimardschoss / Gaumardschoss Only in some parts of Georgien (Vakhtanguri)

 
German (Germany) Prost (beer)
Zum Wohl (wine) (to your health)
Hau weg den Scheiss (vulgar)
I would pretty much prefer the first (common) one as the second one is never used at all. You should remove it. 'Gruss Got' is used to welcome a person but not at all in the sense of 'cheers'.

From Stefan Brede
In Germany we have different ways to say "Cheers" or "Slainte", depending on the kind of drink as well as on the occasion. For BEER: "Prost!" (no matter at which occasion). For WINE: "Prost" with friends, "Zum Wohl" in a more formal environment. For COCKTAILS: Here we often use a toast, for example: "Auf uns!" (To us!) or "Auf Dich!" (To you!). For SCHNAPS: Here we often say something like "Und weg!" or "Hau' weg das Zeug!" (Down the hatch!), but "Prost!" is fine as well. For WHISKY: We never say "Prost!" with Whisky. Rather, we use "Cheers!" or a toast, like "Auf Schottland!" (To Scotland!).

Old info : Prosit. Auf ihr wohl - Gruß got. - Prost ?

German:  Prosit! (Proh-sit) Cheers!
 10/3 Unity Day  (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)
 10/31 Reformation Day (Reformationstag)
 8/8 Peace Festival (Friedensfest)


Greek Eis Igian
Greek:  Stin Eyiassou! (Stin Eye-ee-yass-ooh) To Your Health!
    10/28 The "Ohi day"
    3/25 25th of March  
 Stin ijiasas
 Jamas
 Gia'sou

Greenlandic Kassutta ("Let our glasses meet")  Imeqatigiitta ("Let's drink together")  Kasugta
- Greenland (Denmark) 21 June National Day

Guatemala  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Guatemala 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

Guyana In Guyana, as well as Trinidad, the people speak english. So Cheers is the same in both those countries
- Guyana 23 February (Republic Day, also known as Mashramani, republic 1970)


Hawaiian Okole maluna - Okole malune
- Kamehameha Day on June 11

Hipahipa ?

Hebrew L'chaim ("To life") (Le'chaim) L'Chaim! (Le Hy-em) To Life!
    Rosh Hashanah - sunset, September 28 – sunset, September 30
    Yom Kippur - Sunset, October 7 – nightfall, October 8

Hindi Apki Lambi Umar Ke Liye
- 26 January (Republic Day, becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations 1950),
- 15 August (Independence Day, from the British Empire 1947)


Holooe Kam-poe ?


Honduras  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- Honduras 15 September (Independence from Kingdom of Spain 1821)

Hungarian Kedves egeszsegere
 Le! Le! Le! Egeszsegere (Lay Lay Lay Egg-esh Ay-ged-reh) Down! Down! Down! To your health!
     10/23 Hungary - National Day (since 1989)
     3/15 Hungary - National Day (traditional)
     8/20 Hungary - St Stephen Day
 Egészségedre (sing.) (to your health)
 Egészségetekre (plur.) (to your health)


Icelandic Skál (Santanka nu)
- 17 June (National Day, founding of republic and dissolution of personal union with Denmark 1944)

Ido Ye vua saneso

Indian A la sature
- India 26 January (Republic Day, becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations 1950),
- 15 August (Independence Day, from the British Empire 1947)


Indonesia Pro ( They sometimes say tos (sounds like "toss" back that drink))
- 17 August (Proclamation of Independence day, (Hari Proklamasi Kemerdekaan R.I.), from Japan and the Netherlands 1945)

Interlingua A vostre sanitate (to your health)
 (constructed) A vostre salute

Ireland Sláinte (to your health)  (slawn-cha)
    3/17 St Patricks Day
    4/24 Independence Declared 1916
   12/6  iNDEPENDENCE Recognised 1922
    12/19 Constitution dAY 1937
    4/18 Republic dAY 1949

In Northern Ireland (Ulster) there are three main offical languages : English,Irish and Ulster-Scots
 Cheers in Northern Ireland (Ulster) is Slainte! (to your health) in Irish AND "Guid forder!" (good luck) in Ulster-Scots.
 Irish Gaelic (Sláinte)
- 17 March (St. Patrick's Day),
- 12 July (Battle of the Boyne Day)

 
Israel L'Chaim! (To Life!)
 Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem day
 Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance day
 Yom Hazikaron — Memorial Day
 Yom Ha'atzmaut — Israel Independence Day


Italian / Italy Cin cin (formal)
 Salute (informal)
 cento di questi giorni - may you live a hundred years
 Cent' anni - (americanized) a hundred years alla salute! - to health
 cin cin - a call to touch glasses, from the sound the glasses make.
 ICin! Cin! (Chin Chin) Cheers!
     6/2 Republic Day
Japan / Nippon Kampai / Campai / Most used - Kampai. / Banzai
 Kampai! (Kam-pie) To an empty glass!
      2/11National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinen no Hi)


Jamaica
- Jamaica 1st Monday in August (Independence from the United Kingdom 6 August 1962)


Kikuyu (Kenya) - Rathima andu atene
- 12 December (Independence Day, from the United Kingdom 1963; Republic Day, (Jamhuri Day), 1964)

Korean - Chukbae
- 15 August (both the liberation from Japanese rule 1945 (Gwangbokjeol) and the declaration of the South Korean state 1948),
- 3 October (Gaecheonjeol, the ancient Korea founded in 2333 BC),
- 1 March (declaration of independence of modern Korea and the March 1st movement)

- North Korea 9 September (declaration of a democratic people's republic 1948)
Kong gang ul wi ha yo

Konbe


Latin Sanitas bona (to your health)
Bene tibi

Latin American spanish : Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Latvian Uz veselibu (Prieka)
- 18 November (Declaration of independence from Russia 1918)

Lebanese Kesak (sing.) Keskun (plur.)
- 22 November (Independence from France 1943),25 May (Resistance and Liberation Day from Israel 2000)

Liechtenstein (German)?
- 15 August (The Hereditary Prince becomes Regent 2004)

Lithuanian -  i sveikata/ buk sveikas
- 16 February (Lithuanian State Reestablishment Day, declaration of independence from Russia and Germany 1918)

Luxembourg ? Prost! : (Prohst) (German)
- 23 June (the Monarch's birthday)


Macedonian - Na zdravje! (to your health).
- 8 September (Den na nezavisnosta or Ден на независноста, declaration of independence from Yugoslavia 1991)

Malay  (Brunei Darussalam)

Malaysia In "Bahasa Melayu"  "malay language"). "Minum!". Which means "drink!".
- 31 August (Hari Merdeka, independence (within the Commonwealth) from the United Kingdom 1957) and
- 16 September (Malaysia Day, the formation of Malaysia)


Maltese - Cheers  - Aviva (old fashioned)
- 21 September (Independence Day, independence from the United Kingdom 1964),
- 31 March (Freedom Day, withdrawal of British troops from Malta 1979),
- 13 December (Republic Day, republican constitution of 1974, therefore becoming a republic),
- 7 June (Sette Giugno, bread riot of 1919 where 4 Maltese men died),
- 8 September (Victory Day, victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Great Siege of Malta 1565; Italian government publicly announced agreement to an armistice with the WWII Allies, therefore ending the attacks on Malta by the Italians 1943)


Maori (NZ)- Kia Ora  'Greeting meaning Good Health'
- Waitangi Day - Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840- The Treaty made New Zealand a part of the British Empire, guaranteed Māori rights to their land and gave Māori the rights of British subjects
 
Mexican / Mexico - Salud  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 16 September (Grito de Dolores, declaration of independence from Spain 1810)

Monaco (French)?
Monégasque national anthem,
Despoei tugiù sciü d'u nostru paise
Se ride au ventu, u meme pavayùn
Despoei tugiù a curù russa e gianca
E stà l'emblema, d'a nostra libertà
Grandi e i piciui, l'an sempre respetà

Forever, in our land,
One flag has flown in the wind
Forever, the colours red and white
Have symbolised our liberty
Great and small [people] have always respected them.
- 19 November (the levée of Prince Albert II 2005)

Moroccan / Marokko Saha wa'afiab
- 2 March (Independence from France 1956)


Netherland See Dutch
Netherlands (country)
- 30 April (Queensday, Queen Juliana's birthday),
- 5 May (Liberation Day, from Nazi Germany in 1945)

 

Nicaragua  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo
- 15 September (Independence from Spain 1821)

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Skal
Skål
- 17 May (Constitution Day, the signing of the first Norwegian Constitution in Eidsvoll 1814)

Occitan A la vòstra
 

Pakistani Sanda bashi


Panama  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Paraguay  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Persian (Iran) (Be) salam ati (to your health) Nush ("Enjoy it, and let it be part of your body")

Paru  - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Philippines Mabuhay

Polish Na zdrowie. Vivat
 Na zdrowie (to your health)
 Na zdrowie! [Naz-droh-vee-ay] To your health!
  5/3 Constitution Day
   11/11 Independence Day

Portuguese A sia saide
 Saude (to your health)
 Tchim-tchim
 Saude (Sow-ooh-jee) Cheers!
    4/25 Freedom Day (Portugual)
    6/10    Portugal Day
    10/5  Republic Day
    12/1 Restoration of Independence

Puerto Rico - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo


Quatar Hmmm alcohol is not alowed here..


Rhaeto-Romanic Viva

Romanian Noroc ("Good luck")

Russian (CCCP)
 Zdorovie (Zdo-ro-vee) To your health!
 6/12 Russia Day (somewhat similar to independence day)
 5/9 Victory Day, Russia celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany
 2/23 Defender of the Fatherland Day  AKA  Defender of the Motherland Day
 11/4 Unity Day commemorates the popular uprising led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky which ejected the
 Polish invaders from Moscow in November of 1612
 No one says "Na zdorovje" as a Russian drinking cheer.
 no universal drinking cheer in Russian
 Sometimes they say "Budem zdorovy" meaning "Let's stay healthy". Which sometimes is shortened to just "Budem"   (see Ukranian version).
 or "Chtob vse byli zdorovy", i.e. "Let everybody be healthy". Thanks to Dmitry 
 Vashe zdorovie
 

Sesotho Nqa

Scotland Slainte
 or Slainte Mhor (even more)
 Toast ir Cheers in Scotland is Slainte Mhath! (Good Health). The response is Slainte Mhor! (Great Health).
 Scottish Slainte. Here's tae ye
 Scotish:  Hoot mon
 11/30 St. Andrew's Day  a bank holiday in Scotland.
Serbian Zivio Ziveli - In Serbian, cheers is 'Ziveli', pronounced 'zjee-ve-lee', meaning 'Let's live long!'
 (Old : Zivjeli / U zdravlje)
 Serbo-Croat:  Ziveli! (Zhi-vol-ee) To Life!
 2/15 Serbia National Day
 10/8 Independence Day - Croatia
 6/25 Statehood Day - Croatia
Slovak
 (Slovakia) Na zdravie (to your health) / Stolicka! [stolitschka]

Slovenian Na zdravje (to your health)

Somalian Auguryo

South African (Afrikaans) There are 11 official languages
 English - cheers
 Afrikaans - Gesondheid
 Amandla - other 9
 Gesondheid (to your health)

Spanish Salud
 Chin chin
 "Salud" although it can be used as a toast, it literally means "Health". Salud is also said when someone sneezes.
 Arriba, abajo, al centro, para adentro ("Up, down, center, inside", vulgar)
 Spanish:  Salud! (Sah-lud) To your health!
Sri Lanka (Sinhala) Seiradewa

Suomi (Finland) see Finnish

Swahili Afya / Vifijo

Swedish:  Skal! (Skoll) Cheers!
 6/6 National Day of Sweden (Sveriges nationaldag)
 Svenska / Swedish  Skål - Skaal
 Helan går (Everything goes)

Swahili Maisha marefu - good life or cheers ( Afya! Vifijo! )

Switzerland / Swiss As you might know, there are 4 language-parts in Switzerland (Swissgerman, French, Italian, and  Rätoromanisch) But that's not all, there are also a lot of diffrent dialects here. I'm living in the german part and speak  a dialect called "Bärndütsch", so here we go: Cheers = Proscht, Zum Wohl, Gsundheit (the last two means to your  health). For the other dialects it's mostly the same, only the accent changs a little bit.

 
Taiwanese: Hotala!
 1/1 Founding Day (Founding of Republic of China on January 1, 1912)
 2/28 Peace Memorial Day (228 Incident on February 28, 1947)
 4/4 The Combined Holidays of Women's Day & Children's Day
 *4/4, 5 or 6 Tomb Sweeping Day 15 days after the spring equinox
 10/10 National Celebration Day (Double Tenth Day)


Thai /Thailand Choc-tee
 hallo or hey : Sawadekaa - (to male) Sawadekap (Female)
 Chook-die / Sawasdi

Turkish Serefe (write cedille under S) ("To honor")

Sagligina (sing.) (write bars over g's, remove dots over i's) (to your health)
Sagliginiza (plur. or polite) (to your health)

Trinidad In Trinidad, as well as Guyana, the people speak english.
 So Cheers is the same in both those countries

Ukrainian In Ukraine we say 'Budmo!'. This means approximately 'shall we live forever!' Usually, one person says 'Budmo!' and  everybody at the table/party answers 'Hey!' (the meaning is straightforward). This repeats for up to 3 times  depending on the mood of the crowd. Only then, everybody empties their glasses.
 (Old : Na zdorov'ya)

United Arab Emirates (Arab) Shucram

United Kingdom - Cheers
United States of America/USA Cheers (se also American)

Urdu (Pakistan) Djam

Uruguay - Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo

Uyghur Hoshe (Cheers)
Salametlikingiz ucun (For your health)
 Thank you to : Memet Tursun Zunun


Venezuela (Spanish - Latin American)

Vietnamese Chia
 Can chén (write dot under a) (North V.N.)
 Can ly (write dot under a) (South V.N.)


Welsh Iechyd da
 Iechyd da
 Wales (Welsh)

 

Yiddish Mazel tov Lechaym (Lechaim)
 Zei Gazunt! (Zye Gah-zoont) To your health!
 Rosh Hashanah — The Jewish New Year
 Aseret Yemei Teshuva — Ten Days of Repentance
 Erev Yom Kippur
 Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement
 Sukkot — Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)
  Erev Sukkot — 14 Tishrei
  Sukkot 15
 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
 Erev Hanukkah — 24 Kislev
 Hanukkah (חנוכה‎) — 25 Kislev – 2 or 3 Tevet
 Tenth of Tevet
 Tu Bishvat — New Year of the Trees 15 Shevat
 Purim — Festival of Lots
  Erev Purim and Fast of Esther known as "Ta'anit Ester" — 13 Adar
  Purim (פורים‎) — 14 Adar
  Shushan Purim 15 Adar
  In leap years on the Hebrew calendar, Purim is observed in the Second Adar (Adar Sheni).
 New Year for Kings
  1 Nisan
 Pesach — Passover
  Erev Pesach and Fast of the Firstborn known as "Ta'anit Bechorim" — 14 Nisan
  Passover (Hebrew: Pesach, פסח) (first two days) — 15 and 16 Nisan
  The "Last days of Passover", known as Acharon shel Pesach, are also a holiday commemorating K'riat Yam   Suf, the Passage of the Red Sea. — 21 and 22 Nisan
  The semi-holiday days between the "first days" and the "last days" of Passover are known as Chol Hamo'ed,   referred to as the "Intermediate days".
 Sefirah — Counting of the Omer
 Lag Ba'omer - 33rd day in the Omer count
 Shavuot — Feast of Weeks — Yom HaBikurim
  Erev Shavuot — 5 Sivan
  Shavuot (שבועות‎) — 6, 7 Sivan
 Seventeenth of Tammuz
 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
 Tisha B'av — Ninth of Av
 Tithe of animals - 1 Elul
 Shabbat — The Sabbath —
 Acharei hachagim — "after the holidays"

Yugoslavian Ziveo / Ziveli (Though country is split up now word is still in use.)


Zimbbabwe ?

Zulu Oogy wawa (ooggywawa or oogywawa)

...........ADD TO TOASTS
Afrikaans  Gesondheid 
Albanian  Shëndeti tuaj 
Arabic  Fi sahitak 
Armenian  Genatset 
Asturian  Gayola 
Austrian  Prost / Zum Wohl 
Azerbaijani  Afiyæt oslun 
Basque  Topa 
Belgian  Op uw gezonheid 
Bengali  Joy 
Bosnian  Zivjeli 
Brazilian  Saude 
Breton  Yec'hed mat 
Bulgarian  Nazdrave 
Catalan  Salut 
Chinese  Kong chien 
Cornish  Yeghes da 
Creole  Salud 
Croatian  Zivjeli / U zdravlje 
Czech  Na zdraví 
Danish  Skål 
Dutch  Proost 
Egyptian  Fee sihetak 
Esperanto  Sanon 
Estonian  Teie terviseks 
Farsi  Ba'sal'a'ma'ti 
Finnish  Kippis 
French  À votre santé / Santé 
Frisian  Tsjoch 
Galician  Chinchín / Saúde 
German  Prost 
Greek  Gia'sou 
Greenlandic  Kasugta 
Hawaiian  Hipahipa 
Hebrew  Le'chaim 
Hindi  Apki Lambi Umar Ke Liye 
Holooe  Kam-poe 
Hungarian  Egészségedre 
Icelandic  Santanka nu / Skål 
Ido  Ye vua saneso 
Irish Gaelic  Sláinte 1 
Italian  Salute / Cin cin 
Japanese  Kampai 
Korean  Konbe 
Latin  Sanitas bona / Bene tibi 
Latvian  Prieka 
Lithuanian  I sveikata 
Malaysian  Minum 
Mandarin  Gan bei 
Mexican  Salud 
Moroccan  Saha wa'afiab 
Norwegian  Skål 
Occitan  A la vòstra 
Pakistani  Sanda bashi 
Philippine  Mabuhay 
Polish  Na zdrowie 
Portuguese  Saúde 
Rumanian  Noroc 
Russian  Vashe zdorovie 
Serbian  Zivjeli / U zdravlje 
Sesotho  Nqa 
Slovak  Na zdravie 
Slovenian  Na zdravje 
Spanish  Salud 
Swahili  Afya / Vifijo 
Swedish  Skål 
Tagalog  Mabuhay 
Thai  Chook-die / Sawasdi 
Turkish  Serefe 
Ukrainian  Na zdorov'ya 
Welsh  Iechyd da 
Yiddish  Lechaim 
Yugoslavian  Ziveo / Ziveli 
Zulu  Oogy wawa

-Norman Minstrels  waes hael became wassail. preceded and influenced christmas

Each must drain his cup of wine,
And I the first will toss off mine:
Thus I advise,
Here then I bid you all Wassail,
Cursed be he who will not say Drink hail.

Come, butler, come fill us a bowl of the best;
Then we hope that your soul in heaven may rest;
But if you draw us a bowl of the small,
Then down shall go butler, bowl and all.

A toast is like a sot; or what is most
Compatitive, a sot is like a toast;
For when their substance is liquor sink,
Both properly are said to be in drink.

Sailor toast
The wind that blows, the ship that goes
And the lass that loves a sailor.

Damn his eyes,
If he ever tries
To rob a poor man of his ale.

MILITARY
To the enemies of our country!
May they have cobweb breeches, a porcupine saddle, a hard-trotting horse, and an eternal journey.

"The bubble winked at me and said, 'You'll miss me, brother, when you're dead.' "

PROHIBITION
Here's to Prohibition,
The devil take it!
They've stolen our wine,
So now we make it.

Amore, salud, dinero, y tiempo para gustarle-love, health, money, and time to enjoy it
~ Frank Basile


Here’s to the desert
And the valleys so green;
Here’s to the cowgirls
And the cowboys so lean;
Here’s to the ones we love
Dearest and most;
And God bless Texas-
That’s a Texan’s toast.
~ Doc Blakely


My friend I wish health to you,
I also wish wealth to you;
I wish the best that life can give to you,
And may dreams always come true to you.
May fortune to kind to you,
And happiness be true to you;
And love be so sweet to you
And life be long and good to you.
And in this toast we give to you
Our love we all give to you.
~ Willie Jolley


May you always work like you don’t need the money;
May you always love like you’ve never been hurt; and
May you always dance like there’s nobody watching.
~ Jack Canfield


Live each day as if it’s your last, and each night as if it was your first.
~ Shep Hyken


May opinion never float on the waves of ignorance,
May we look forward with pleasure, and backwards
Without remorse,
May we never crack a joke to break a reputation,
May we never suffer for principles we do not hold,
May we live to learn, and learn to live well,
May we live in pleasure and die out of debt,
A head to earn and a heart to spend,
Health of body, peace of mind, a clean shirt and a guinea*.
(*A guinea was one pound, one shilling-a little less than $2.00)
~ Scotland


I drink to the health of another,
And the drink I drink to is he,
In hope that he drinks to another,
And the other he drinks to is me.
~ Scotland


May the hinges of friendship never rust,
May the wings of love never tear loose a feather,
And may this sacred circle of love grow deeper and
Stronger every year,
And not be broken as long as we live.
‘Cause they tell me that a bell is not a bell until we ring it,
A song is not a song until we sing it,
Love was not put in our hearts to stay,
Love is only love when we give it away.
So here’s to those we love,
And here’s to those who love us,
And here’s to those that we love
Who love those who love us.
So lets keep this circle of friends and never forget
That life is our greatest gift,
And living nobly, our finest art.
And what we can do, we ought’a do,
And what we ought’a do, we can do;
And what we can do, and ought’a do, I know we will do.
Good luck, God bless, I love every one of you.
~ Cavett Robert Toast


Dear Lord,
In the battle that goes on through life,
I ask only for a field that is fair,
A chance that is equal to all the strife,
The courage to strive and to dare.
If I should win, let it be by the code,
With my faith and my honor held high;
But if I should lose,
Let me stand by the road,
And cheer as the winners go by.
~ Prayer of a Sportsman

"For a quart of ale is a dish for a king"
- William Shakespeare ‘A Winter’s Tale’

We know it is true that we're wicked,
That our criminal laws are lax;
But here's to punishment for the man
Who invented the income tax

Here's to the bee - the busy soul;
He has no time for birth control
That's why it is in times like these,
We have so many sons of bees!

Here's to the bore - the only one who can monopolize and monotonize a conversation at the same time.

Here's to you. You may not be as wise as an owl, but you're always a hoot.

Here's to the man who is wisest and best
Here's to the man who with judgment is blest,
Here's to the man who's as smart as can be –
I drink to the man who agrees with me!

To your very good health. May you live to be as old as your jokes.

Wise, kind, gentle, generous, sexy . . . but enough about me. Here's to you.

To a fine man who remembers where he came from. Of course, that's about all he remembers.

Here's to the brilliant, warm, handsome . . . company that you keep.

Drink and be merry, for our time on earth is short, and death lasts forever

To the good old days - which we are having right now.

"Oh, here's to other meetings,
And merry greetings then;
And here's to those we've drunk with.
But never can again."
-Stephen Decatur

May we be like mighty oaks, which, after all, are only acorns that held their ground.

My country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I drink to thee!

May we be slaves to no party and bigots to no sect.

To the American eagle-may it never rise in anger, never go to roost in fear.

To freedom from mobs as well as kings.

Love, life, and liberty:
Love pure,
Life long,
Liberty boundless.

May the rocks in your field turn to gold.

I give you play days, heydays, and pay days!

May your luck be like the capital of Ireland--- Always Dublin

Here's to blue skies and green lights.

A toast to the three great American birds:
May you always have an eagle in your pocket,
A chicken on your table,
And Wild Turkey in your glass

May you be as lucky as a mosquito in a nudist colony.

Two ins and one out-in health, in wealth, and out of debt.

May the sunshine of comfort dispel the clouds of despair

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Here's to turkey when you're hungry,
Champagne when you're dry,
A pretty woman when you need her,
And heaven when you die

Thanks for your cordial, which was welcome; and for your welcome, which was cordial.

A full belly, a heavy purse, and a light heart.

Here's to doing and drinking, not sitting and thinking.

Clink, clink your glasses and drink;
Why should we trouble borrow?
Care not for sorrow,
A fig for the morrow.
Tonight let's be merry and drink.

You shall and you shan't,
You will and you won't,
You're condemned if you do,
And you're damned if you don't.
So let's drink!

'Tis easy to say "Fill 'em"
When your account's not overdrawn.
But the man worthwhile,
Is the man who can smile,
When every damned cent is gone.

It's not as bad a world
As some would like to make it;
But whether it's good or bad,
Depends on how you take it.

"Within this goblet, rich and deep, I cradle all my woes to sleep." -Tom Moore

To quote Richard Stillman Powell, "Now, down with care and blithely swear A truce to melancholy; Let each good soul fill up his bowl And drink a toast to folly."

May the frowns of misfortune never rob innocence of its joy.

Here's to the fellow who smiles
When life rolls along like a song,
And here's to the chap who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.

To our troubles and to our inevitable victory. As Seneca said, "Fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong men."

To adversity. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and gelling well hammered yourself.”

Good, better, best;
Never let it rest,
Till your good is better,
And your better best.

Do not resist growing old - many are denied the privilege.

Here's to great ambition,
About which people rant. It makes you want to do the things
That everyone knows you can't.


To the desire to triumph. In the words of Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything-but wanting to win is."

Here's to our trying. As the saying goes, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

To giant steps, because, as David Lloyd George said, "The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two jumps. "

To our daring. As they say, "No guts, no glory."

To the mother who bore me,
There's no one more bold,
She's dearer by far
Than all of earth's gold.

"To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasant dreams and slumbers light."
-Sir Walter Scott

To goodbyes-that they never be spoken.
To friendships - may they never be broken.

May we always part with regret and meet again with pleasure

 Calvin Coolidge said, "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

 I've traveled many a highway I've walked for many a mile.
Here's to the people who made my day
To the people who waved and smiled.


Lift 'em high and drain 'em dry
To the guy who says,
"My turn to buy!"

May we strengthen the weak,
Give light to the blind,
Clothe the naked,
And be friends to mankind.

Here's to love, life, and liberty: Love pure, Life long, Liberty boundless

To life. The first half is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children

 

Albanian: Gezuar.
Arabian: Bismillah. Fi schettak.
Armenian: Genatzt.
Austrian: Prosit.
Belgian: Op uw gezonheid.
Brazilian: Saude. Viva. Felicidades. Una pro santo!
Chinese: Nien Nien nu e. Kong Chien. Kan bei. Yum sen. Wen ule.
Czech: Na Zdravi. Nazdar.
Danish: Skal
Dutch: Proost. Geluk.
Egyptian: Fee sihetak.
Esperanto: Je zia sano.
Estonian: Tervist.
Finnish: Kippis. Maljanne.
French: A votre sante. Sante.
German: Prost. Zum Wohl.
Greek: Eis Igian.
Greenlandic: Kasugta.
Hawaiian: Okole maluna. Hauoul maoul oe. Meul kaulkama.
Hebrew: L'chaim.
Hungarian: Kedves egeszsegere.
Icelandic: Santanka nu.
India: Apki Lambi Umar Ke Liye.
Irish: Sláinte.
Italian: A la salute. Salute. Cin cin.
Japanese: Kampai. Banzai.
Korean: Kong gang ul wi ha yo.
Lithuanian: I sveikas.
Malayan: Slamat minum.
Mexican: Salud.
Moroccan: Saha wa'afiab.
New Zealander: Kia ora.
Norwegian: Skal.
Pakistani: Sanda bashi.
Philippine: Mabuhay.
Poilsh: Na zdrowie. Vivat.
Portuguese: A sua saude.
Romanian: Noroc. Pentru sanatatea dunneavoastra.
Russian: Na zdorovia.
Spanish: Salud. Salud, amor y pesetas y el tiempo para gustarlos! Salud, pesetas y un par de tetas
Swedish: Skal.
Thai: Sawasdi.
Turkish: Serefe.
Ukrainian: Boovatje zdorovi.
Welsh: Iechyd da.
Yugoslavian: Zivio.
Zulu: Oogy wawa.