1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

Toasts

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God grant us good, whether or not we pray, But e'en from praying souls keep bad away.

—Anon

May all your pain be sham pain, and aU your champagne real! —Anon

He who drinketh strong beer and goes to bed right mellow. Lives as he ought to live and dies a hearty fellow. —Old English Song

Why measure all your good in gold? No rope of sand is weaker; 'Tis hard to get, 'tis hard to hold— Come,lad, fill up your beaker!

—Mark Lemon

Hand round the wine— The past is mine!—Ednah Robinson

May the work that you have be the play that you love. —Geberding

Here's to the whole world,for fear thatsome fool will be sore because he's left out! —Anon

Come,love and health to all; Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine, fill full, I drink to the general joy o' the whole table. —Shakespeare

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One word ere yet the evening ends, Let's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge a hand to all our friends As fits this merry Christmas time!

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—Thackeray

Here's to our home.

And here's to our club.

But not to the home Where the club waits the "hub!"

—Phil McAllister May good heads be preferred to fine heads! —Old English Toast