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Toasts
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When I said I should die a bachelor,I did not think I should
live till I were married.
—Shakespeare
Tell me, ye lovers of liquor divine.
Did you ever see a frown in a bumper of wine?
—"Clio and Euterpe"
Here's to matrimony—and a good compass to steer its seas!
To my pal—that too many may not make my share of his
friendship too small!
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy.
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I!
—Codrington
Let wine be earth and air and sea—
And let that wine be all for me!
—Anon
May all single men be wed and all husbands happy!
Some men want youth and others health,
Some want a wife and some a punk.
Some men want wit and others wealth.
But they want NOTHING that are drunk!
—Old Song
Here's to you and you to me
And thirsty souls where'er they be!
Come,fill the cup to keep the spirits up
By drinking the spirits down.
To Grief—without which our joys were tame!
A toast to all our neighbors—so long as they mind their own
business!
To Hell! May we have as good a time there
As we had in getting there!
—Anon
A toast to Dan Cupid,the great evil-doer;
A merciless rogue—may his darts ne'er grow fewer!
—Estelle Foreman