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In Western culture, a toast at weddings, birthdays and other events of life is a ritual that shows honor, respect, congratulations, good health, happiness and a hopeful future for the person or persons the toast is directed to. To toast, usually someone at the party or event attracts the attention of everyone, raises a glass and proposed a toast. Others raise their glasses or touch their glasses together in agreement with the toast. A toast can be among many people and between just two people.
While toasts are usually sentimental and encouraging, they can also be humorous, serious, and as appropriate, rude or insulting. Some are silent toast and just raise a glass to someone is a gesture of recognition
Eg .. Many popular toasts are very short
- "Hip, Hip, Hooray."
- "Lechaim" - To your health "["life"whichmeans
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- "peace."
- "long life and prosperity." ~ Mr .. Spock.
- "Cheers."
- "I drink to you."
- "That's encouraging."
- "God be with you and bless you."
- "Never let yesterday use too much today." ~ Will Rogers.
- "let us eat, drink, and be merry."
We thought the toast given Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly at their wedding by Robert B. Reich was a classic example of personalizing a toast. He said, "to a bride who moves at a speed that exceeds that of anyone else in Washington, and a groom who moves at a velocity that exceeds 17,000 miles . per hour "
Source: Judith Anderson." Greetings... Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly "NYTimes.com 02/12/07We loved the toast the bride made her husband in the film Leap Year. the bride challenged the groom never steal, lie or cheat. "But if you must fly," she said, "then steal my pain. and if you must lie, lie with me every night of my life if you must cheat, then please cheat death ... because I could not 't live without you "
. Source: .. Leap Year IMDB.com. 2010.A toast with a similar formulation is Hitch when he said: "Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you. Love If you must fly, fly away from bad company if you must cheat, cheat death And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away "
Source: ... Hitch IMDB.com 05.There are many variations of this toast two other:.. ....
"May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink But if you must lie, lie in the arms of each other If you must steal, steal kisses If you must cheat, cheat death And if you must drink, drink with us, friends "
Source :. Old Irish Toast drink . Yahoo.com."May you never lie, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie with each other. And if you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us we love you all and wish you both the love and the happiness that you deserve "
Source :. classic wedding toasts.. Weddings.about.comMore about Toasting:
- A Guide to toast
- toasts for all occasions
- toast to the Irish
- samples of wedding toasts
- All About wedding toasts