WINE TOASTS

It gives me great pleasure. - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw offered the above toast during a fashionable English dinner party at which it was the custom of the host to select both the giver and the subject of the toast. In an apparent attempt to tongue-tie the great literary lion, the host selected the subject of sex - an unmentionable in society at the turn of the century. Shaw responded simply and to the point.

Here's champagne to our real friends, And real pain to our sham friends. - Unknown

Here's hoping that you live forever And mine is the last voice you hear. - Willard Scott

May you live all the years of your life. - Jonathan Swift

May you live as long as you want And may you never want as long as you live. - Unknown

May our wine brighten the mind and strengthen the resolution. - Unknown

When wine enlivens the heart May friendship surround the table. - Unknown

Fill to him, to the brim! Round the table let it roll. The divine says that wine Cheers the body and the soul. - Unknown

May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances, And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares. - Unknown

Wine improves with age - I like it the older I get. - Unknown

To my friends: Friends we are today, And friends we'll always be - For I am wise to you, And you can see through me. - Unknown

May bad fortune follow you all your days And never catch up with you. - Unknown

To temperance . . . in moderation. - Lem Motlow

Give me wine to wash me clean From the weather - stains of care. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. - Lord Byron

Here's looking at you, kid. - Humphrey Bogarttoasting Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

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

I drink to your charm, your beauty and your brains - Which gives you a rough idea of how hard up I am for a drink. - Groucho Marx