Party Toasts -- The Top Ten for Holidays and Special Occasions


Below are ten party toasts that, whether served in jest or sincerity, have been spoken (or slurred) at many a party throughout the ages.

Party toasts date back to ancient times. In 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, drinking to one another's health was common in part because poisoned wine was common. Apparently poisoning wine was a popular way of eliminating one's enemies, and so the party toast was a prayer of sorts that the wine wouldn't do away with everyone present.

The term "toast" itself comes from a Greek and Roman practice of dropping bread into a bowl of wine to remove its acidity. Wine back then was even worse than some of the stuff college kids drink today, and so this toasting practice was necessary. The bowl would be passed around, and the last person to drink from it would be the host, who would also eat the acid-saturated piece of toast in honor of the guests.

Now that you have an interesting anecdote to share at your party or holiday event that will make you all the more interesting, too, on with the top ten party toasts!

1) “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live."

2) "May neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you."

3) "May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far."

4) "Work like you don’t need the money, dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening, and live every day as if it were your last."

5) "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."

6) "Health to you, and wealth to you, and the best that life can give to you!"

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7) "A toast to love, a toast to laughter, a toast to living happily ever after!"

8) "May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past."

Here a two that are specifically New Years Eve party toasts:

9) "Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old. Here's to the things that are yet to come, and the memories that we hold."

10) "May all your troubles during the coming year be as short-lived as your New Year's resolutions!"


- By Brian Vaszily, Founder of IntenseExperiences.com


OH, and a BONUS one ... here's one of the most famous party toasts, originating from Ireland, that you can give at your own risk:


"Here's to you and here's to me, friends may we always be! But if by chance we disagree, up yours! Here's to me!"


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