Toasting is not nearly as common as it once was. However, the polished public speaker should have a few short toasts ready to go if and when the occasion arises. Here are a few fun toasts and a few touching ones too:

Birthdays:

To your birthday, glass held high. Glad it's you that's older not I.

Heres to you. No matter how old you are, you don't look it.

Christmas:

'Twas the month after Christmas, and Santa had flit; Came there tidings in the mail, which read: Please remit.

Here's to the Holly with its bright red berry. Here's to Christmas, let's make it merry.

Meals:

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you diet.

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

Friendship:

Here's to a friend who knows me well and likes me anyway.

May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age.

Banquet speech ending:

Good day, good health, good cheer, good night!

Health:

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

Luck:

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never face the wrong way.

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

New Year:

May all our troubles in

In the year ahead may we treat our friends with kindness and our enemies with generosity.

Marriage:

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution. Groucho Marx

May for 'better or worse' be far better than worse.

To close this section I would like to tell you that I feel like a loaf of bread. Wherever I go, they toast me.

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