"Toasts should be like a woman's skirt - short enough to be interesting, yet long enough to cover the subject."
Friendship/Drinking
May misfortune follow you the rest of your life,
but never catch up.
May you always have a cool head and a warm heart.
May you live as long as you want,
may you never want as long as you live.
May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
May all your troubles be little ones.
As you slide down the banister of life,
may the splinters never point the wrong way.
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
May you get all your wishes but one,
so that you will always have something to strive for!
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Holidays/Events
May you live to be 100 years old, with one extra year to repent.
Be to your virtues a little kind,
be to your faults a little blind.
Never above you.
Never below you.
Always by your side.
Here's to the day of good will, cold weather,
and warm hearts.
Here's wishing you more happiness than all my words can tell,
not just alone for Christmas,
but for all the year as well.
May you never be without a drop at Christmas.
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Irish/Traditional
May your neighbors respect you,
trouble neglect you,
the angels protect you,
and heaven accept you.
May the roof over your heads be as well thatched
as those inside are well matched.
Here's to the women who love me terribly, may they soon improve.
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
the foresight to know where you're going,
and the insight to know when you're going too far.
May the Good Lord take a liking to you,
... but not too soon!
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish...
you’re lucky enough!
May your fire be as warm as the weather is cold.
May you never forget
what is worth remembering
or remember what is best forgotten.
May the doctor never earn a pound out of you.
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed,
and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed.
May there be a generation of children on the children of your children.
May the roof above you never fall in,
and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
All rise and raise a glass, to the land we love and the love we land!
Here's to women's kisses,
and to whiskey, amber clear;
Not as sweet as a woman's kiss,
but a darn sight more sincere!
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light.
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
May the sound of happy music,
and the lilt of Irish laughter,
fill your heart with gladness,
that stays forever after.
May your blessings outnumber the Shamrocks that grow.
And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
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