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Here's to the hostess! May she he hung, drawn and quar
tered! May she be hung with jewels, drawn in a coach and four,
and quartered in a palace!
—Anon
Come in the evening or come in the morning—
Come when you're looked for, come without warning;
A thousand welcomes you'll find here before you!
And the oftener you come the more I'll adore you!
—Old Irish Toast
May our friendship, like wine, improve with time.
Away with farewells,
Let welcomes always be!
And may we always share wells
Of friendship deep as sea!
Come,fill to joyous years
This crystal clear and fine—
The morn may fill with tears
What now we fill with wine!
—Sheffauer
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman,but a good cigar is a Smoke!
—Kipling
Welcome be ye that are here.
Welcome and make good cheer.
Welcome and Happy New Year!
—Old Song
May mirth and good fellowship ever abound!
Boys, fill up a bumper,and let it go round!
—Old Song
To you, to me,to all of us.
May Sorrow never take a fall of us!
God grant you many and happy years,
Till, when the last has crowned you,
The dawn of endless years appears,
And Heaven is shining round you!
—Holmes