Toasts: Over 1 500 of the Best Toasts Sentiments Blessings and Graces

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For anyone who will ever face a sea of expectantly raised glasses or anyone who is fascinated by words and word-play this rich compendium of toasts for every occasion will prove as entertaining as it is useful.The best toasts ever proclaimed (and a few of the worst) funny and sentimental toasts cynical and heartfelt toasts old-fashioned and contemporary toasts justly famous and unjustly forgotten toasts ... theyre all here in the latest compilation of verbal fun from wordsmith extraordinaire Paul Dickson. Impossible to put down when browsing and easy to use when looking something up its one of those books that will never gather dust on the shelf.Weddings graduations anniversaries births (and birthdays) family reunions business dinners and other occasions are all included along with tips for the toastmaster ways to says "Cheers!" in fifty languages from Albanian to Zulu and other toasting topics.Salud!I drink to your health when Im with you I drink to your health when Im alone I drink to your health so oftenIm beginning to worry about my own.Heres to good-byes -- that they never be spoken!Heres to friendships -- may they never be broken!Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers Drink to their fathers and to their brothers;Toast their dear healths as long as youre able And dream of their charms while youre under the table.Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.-- James ThurberI used to know a clever toast But pshaw! I cannot think it --So fill your glass to anythingAnd bless your souls Ill drink it.