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    Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration
    Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration
    Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration
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    Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration

    By Paul Dickson

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    The perfect pocket guide for anyone who ever needs to give a toast.

    Paul Dickson's Rising to the Occasion is the ideal pocket reference for any moment when one might need to raise a glass. Organized by category, it contains sayings famous and profound, suitable and sentimental, created by the likes of Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, and Willard Scott alongside equally engaging anonymous toasts. Covering births, weddings, graduations, holidays, and many other events both major and minor, Paul Dickson also provides advice on how to give the best possible toast, and warnings about what one should never do.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury USA
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781620406656
    Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration
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    Paul Dickson

    Paul Dickson is the author of more than forty books, including The Joy of Keeping Score, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Baseball's Greatest Quotations, and Baseball: The Presidents' Game. In addition to baseball, his specialties include Americana and language. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.

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      I added this book to my collection with the hopes that it would give me some inspiration for my wedding speech; I was severely disappointed. Most of the quotes that they recommend sound so outdated and awkward to say in most of today's contexts. Definitely would not recommend.

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    Toasts

    Age

    A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

    —Groucho Marx

    Do not resist growing old—many are denied the privilege.

    Fill high the goblet! Envious time steals, as we speak, our fleeting prime.

    Here’s a health to the future;

    A sigh for the past;

    We can love and remember,

    And hope to the last,

    And for all the base lies

    That the almanacs hold

    While there’s love in the heart,

    We can never grow old.

    Here’s hoping that you live forever

    And mine is the last voice you hear.

    —Willard Scott, from A Gentleman’s Guide to Toasting

    Here’s that we may live to eat the hen

    That scratches on our grave.

    I’ve never known a person to live to 110 or more, and then die, to be remarkable for anything else.

    —Josh Billings

    Let him live to be a hundred! We want him on earth.

    —Oliver Wendell Holmes to a friend

    Long life to you and may you die in your own bed.

    May our lives, like the leaves of the maple, grow

    More beautiful as they fade.

    May we say our farewells, when it’s time to go,

    All smiling and unafraid.

    —Larry E. Johnson

    May the Lord love us but not call us too soon.

    May virtue and truth

    Guide you in youth

    Catnip and sage

    Cheer your old age.

    —Found in a geography book dated 1880, Cuttingsville, Vermont

    May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age.

    May you enter heaven late.

    May you live as long as you want, may you never want as long as you live.

    May you live to be a hundred—and decide the rest for yourself.

    Noah was six hundred years old before he knew how to build an ark—don’t lose your grip.

    —Elbert Hubbard

    Oh to be seventy again!

    —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on the occasion of his passing a pretty girl on the street at the age of about eighty-five

    Only the young die good.

    —Oliver Herford

    The good die young—here’s hoping that you may live to a ripe old age.

    To maturity:

    When there’s snow on the roof,

    there’s fire in the furnace.

    To the Old Guard, the older we grow,

    The more we take and the less we know.

    At least the young men tell us so,

    But the day will come, when they shall know

    Exactly how far a glass can go,

    To win the battle, ’gainst age, the foe.

    Here’s youth . . . in a glass of wine.

    —James Monroe McLean, The Book of Wine

    To the old, long life and treasure;

    To the young, all health and pleasure.

    —Ben Jonson

    You’re not as young as you used to be

    But you’re not as old as you’re going to

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