QandAs: Food

What are some good Wine Toasts?

Answer:
The tradition of offering a wine toast to honored

guests can be traced back to an ancient Greek practice of hoisting wine goblets to the gods to ensure the wine was not poisoned. The actual term toast came from the Roman practice of adding a burnt piece of bread to inferior wines in order to reduce their acidity.

Here are a number of good wine toasts, culled from various Internet sources. Some people who have been asked to deliver a wine toast may want to choose their own words instead, but professional speakers suggest an impromptu wine toast should be brief, witty and appropriate to the situation:

"May friendships, like wine, improve, as time advances. And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares." - Author unknown

"A man not old, but mellow, like good wine." - Stephen Phillips

"May you get all your wishes but one, so you always have something to strive for!." - Author unknown

"Here's to cold nights, warm friends, and a good drink to give them." - Author unknown

"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." -- Mark Twain

"May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead." - Old Irish Toast

"May the best day of your past, be the worst day of your future." - Unknown Author

"May we have more and more friends, and need them less and less." - Unknown Author

"When wine enlivens the heart may friendship surround the table." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which, the first is made.
-Robert Browning

To the Land we Love, and the Love we Land!
-Traditional Welsh

Friendship's the wine of life.
Let's drink of it and to it.

Cool breeze
Warm fire
Full moon
Easy chair
Empty plates
Soft words
Sweet songs
Tall tales
Short sips
Long life
-John Egerton

Here's Champagne to our real friends
and real pain to our sham friends.

Some friends wish you happiness,
and others wish you wealth -
But I wish you the best of all -
contentment blessed with health!

May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And the rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

There are good ships,
And there are wood ships,
the ships that sail the sea
but the best ships
are friendships
and may they always be.

May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more
and nothing but happiness
come through the door

May those who love us, love us
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts,
And if he doesn't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we'll know them by their limping.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon
And some days you're the statue.

To eternity, may it last forever!

May you live as long as you want to
And may you want to as long as you live!!

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.

"Wasser ist billig, rein und gut;
Doch verdunt es unser blut."
Translated: "Water is cheap, pure and good...but it thins the blood."

Here's to all of your friends: they know you far too well, and they still like you.

The Lord gives us our relatives,
Thank God we can choose our friends.

To friends: As long as we are able
To lift our glasses from the table.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you've gone too far.

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

Don't worry about the future,
The present is all thou hast,
The future will soon be present,
And the present will soon be past.

May you always work like you don't need the money;
May you always love like you've never been hurt; and may you always dance like there's nobody watching. (Jack Canfield)

Make new friends, but keep the old;
These are silver, those are gold.
New-made friends, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Brow may furrow, hair turn gray,
But friendship never knows decay. (Art Linkletter)

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.


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