What are your favorite toasts?

WINE TALK
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I like to take a quote or metaphor and expand it into the situation. Not as officious as making the cover song your own but yet in the same vein. One of my go to is the paraphrased Martin Buber quote that the spirit is not the blood that flows through your body, but the air you breathe. The expounding of this brings out what it is to be an adult. To launch from yourself to interacting with others so that the sum is greater. From family to the broader community. Etc Mike

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Yesterday is history
Tomorrow a mystery
But today is a gift…that’s why it’s called the present.


Never lie, cheat or steal…but if you must
Steal away from poor company
Cheat death
And ‘lie’ in the arms of a beautiful woman*

*as you turn and look at your wife.

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The version I heard was:

She offered her honor
He honored her offer
And all night long
He was honor and offer

Another:

Here’s to the ladies
Oh so sweet
They make things stand
That have no feet

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“To the confusion of our enemies.”
Best, Jim

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“Drink wine, this is life eternal,
This and all that youth will give you;
It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends,
Be happy for this moment
as this moment is your life."

  • Omar Khayyam
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Pain Grillé.

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“In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Friends may come, and friends may go,
and friends may peter out, you know,
but friends are friends through thick or thin,
peter out, or peter in.

Here’s to fire.
Not the fire which burns down shanties,
but the fire which burns down panties.

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When God made man,
he made him out of string.
He had a little extra,
so he left a little thing.

When God made woman,
he made her out of lace,
He didn’t have enough,
so he left a little space.

Here’s to space!

30

The Shissel Rye at Gus & Paul’s (now closed). New York stole my family baker…I need to hit Russ & Daughters.

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Salud, amor, y pesetas, y el tiempo para gustarlos.

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Here’s Tae Us
Wha’s Like Us
Damn Few
And They’re A’ Deid
…
Here’s to us
And those like us
Damn few
And they’re all dead

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I can’t believe it took 26 posts for this. [shrug.gif] [berserker.gif]

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In a group of men: “Here’s to our wives and our girlfriends . . . may they never meet.”

“I would rather be with the people in this room than with the finest people I know.”

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“May the best XXX of your past be the worst XXX of your future”

xxx being day, birthday, memory, job, anniversary, etc.

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“Remember, in everything, moderation, including moderation.”

“Here’s to hoping that you live to be as old as you look!”

“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. Here’s to your future success in law school!”

“Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends!”

“You know, you have brain cells that tell you not to drink because alcohol kills brain cells. Luckily, those are the first to go.”

“To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.”

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I know and love the “Gardens of stone” variation with James Earl Jones and James Caan playing career soldiers in the late 1960’s.Great movie.

" Here’s to those of us who think like us. Damn few left".