This pages is dedicated to the non-specific toasts to alcohol. Please see the sub-categories of beer, wine, etc.
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Drink with impunity --
Or anyone who happens to invite you!
[1960 Koken]
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Here's to a guy who is never blue,
Here's to a buddy who is ever true,
Here's to a pal, no matter what the load,
Who never declines, just one for the road.
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May the circulating bottle never
Cause our heads to turn with it.
[1910 Lowe.]
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If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine, a friend, or being dry,
Or least we should be by-and-by,
Or any other reason why.
[Attributed to Dr. Henry Aldrich by 1884 French, Originally composed in Latin. 1979, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 1960 Koken (correctly?) attributes it to Jean Sirmond.]
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Pledge it merrily; fill your glasses!
Let the bumper toast go round.
lowe, 1910.
- Down your throat,
Into your bladder,
Which end it comes out,
Does it really matter?
Retrieved from http://www.chrudat.com/drinking_toasts.html on 2007-08-28.
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Here's to a long life and a merry one,
A quick death and an easy one,
A pretty girl and a true one,
A cold bottle and another one.
lowe, 1910 variant found about beer...
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Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise alone, and still drink more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise.
[Thomas Love Peacock,
Misfortunes of Elphin]
Variant:
He is not drunk who from the floor
Can rise alone and drink some more;
But he is drunk who prostrate liles,
And cannot drink or cannot rise
[1961 Frank Lynn]
[SHOW EUGENE FIELD'S VARIANT HERE]
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Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
[© 1936 by Ogden Nash, REFLECTIONS ON ICE-BREAKING]
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I went to Frankfort, and got drunk
With that most learn'd professor, Brunck;
I went to Worms, and got more drunken
With that more learn'd professor, Ruhnken.
[Richard Porson, Facetieae Cantabrigienses]
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There are many good reasons for drinking --
And one has just entered my head:
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How the hell can he drink when he's dead!
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The Russ drinks quass; Dutch, Lubeck beer,
And that is strong and mighty;
The Briton, he metheglin quaffs,
The Irish aqua vitae;
The French affect the Orleans grape,
The Spaniard tastes his sherry
The English none of these can 'scape,
But he with all makes merry.
[Attributed to Heywood, Thomas (?1574 - 1641), Dramatist, The Rape of Lucrece (1608) by French in 19th Centuries. This needs to be verified.]
Variants(?):
The Frenchman loves his native wine;
The German loves his beer;
The Englishman loves his 'alf and 'alf,
Because it brings good cheer.
The Irishman loves his " whiskey straight,"
Because it gives him dizziness.
The American has no choice at all,
So he drinks the whole d-----business.
[1903, "Hello Bill" Toasts]
From Australia:
The German likes his beer
The Pommy likes his half and half
Because it brings good cheer
The Scotsman likes his whisky
And the Irishman likes his hot
The Aussie has no national drink
So he drinks the bloody lot.
[1992, Fahey]
Another from Australia:
The Frenchman likes his native wine;
The German likes his beer,
The Englishman likes his half-and-half
Because it brings good cheer.
The Scotsman likes his whisky;
The Irishman likes it hot;
The Australian has no national drink
So, he drinks the whole ---- lot.
[1933ca, WITH THE DIGGERS. pg. 147]
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"Love"
There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
and the love of a staunch true man.
There's the love of a baby that's unafraid,
all have existed since time began.
But the most wonderful love, the Love of Loves,
even greater than the love for Mother,
is the intimate, tenderest, passionate love...
of one dead drunk for another.
-Anon.
Variant:
The love of a beautiful maiden
The love of a strong young man
The love of romantic sweethearts
Existed since time began.
But the greatest love of all loves
Greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, delicate, intimate -- lust
Of one randy sod for another!
[1970, What Rugby Jokes Did Next. pg.97.]
Variant:
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby unafraid
Has existed since time began;
But the greatest love, the love of loves,
Even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love
Of one drunken bum for another.
[1961 Frank Lynn, pg. 145; it is on the same page as other known toasts.]
Used specifically as a toast:
Here's to the love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true friend.
The love of a baby unafraid,
Has been known since time began.
But the greatest of loves,
The love of all loves,
Is the tender, infinite, passionate love,
OF ONE DRUNKEN BUM TO ANOTHER..
[From: Jerry Levine <jlevine(at) worldnet.att.net> Date: 1998-02-11 Usenet: alt.tasteless.humor]
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Starkle, starkle little twink
Who the hell are you I think,
I'm not under what you call
The acofluence of incohol.
I'm just a little slort of sheep
I'm not drunk like thinkle peep.
I don't know who is me yet,
But the drunker I stand here the longer I get.
So just give me on more drink
To fill my cup 'cause I got all day sober to
Sunday!
[From: ao766(at) freenet.toronto.on.ca (Dark Shadow) Date: 1998-02-11 Usenet: alt.tasteless.humor]
Specifically called a toast:
Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink:
Who the hell you are I think
I'm not as thunk as some people drink I am.
'sides that, I only had tee martoonies
and I've got all day Sober to sunday up in.
[From: jantier(at) delphi.com (Jan Tier) Newsgroups: alt.recovery Date: 23 Jul 1994]
Variant:
Starkle, starkle little twink,
What the heck you are, I think.
I'm not under the alluence of incohol,
Although some thinkle peep I am,
It's just the drunker I stand the longer I get.
[1961 Frank Lynn, pg 145.; It is found among other known toasts.]
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When your heels strike hard and your head feels queer,
And you thoughts rise up like the froth on beer;
When your knees grow weak and your voice grows strong,
And you laugh like a fool at some silly song --
You're drunk, my boy, you're drunk.
[1938 CLEAN DIRT. Listed as a toast.; See if you can find earlier/later versions.]