Cultural Toasts

Chinese: Ganbei! (dry your cup)
Dutch: Prost! (health)
English: Cheers!
French: Santé! (health)
German: Prost! (cheers)
Hebrew: Le'chaim! (to life)
Irish: Sláinte! (to your health)
Italian: Per cent'anni! (for one hundred years)
Italian 2: Salute (health)
Japanese: Kanpai! (dry your cup)
Russian: Vashe zdorovie! (to health)
Spanish: Salud! (health)
Welsh: Iechyd da! (health)

Toast Sayings

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!

As you slide down the bannister of life,
May the splinters never point the wrong way.

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.