re campai
 

it means cheers in japanese rite

:)))
 

Hi all!(wave)

Here's one of my favorite toasts, brilliant one!

To your health!
You make age curious,
Time furious,
And the rest of us envious!

Isn't it good? ;-)b

A great toast of good friends
 

this is a toast me and my buddy used to say all the time.

" Here's to you:), here's to me:), if we should ever disagree:(, F@CK you, here's to me!:D"

I love that one. ;)

hi!
 

Hello people (wave)

It's great that this thread is so active, it is always good to know some information on foreign cultures toasts, there exists this possibility of impressing your friends from other countries while siting at a table with them by saying a beautiful toast, that belongs to their countries, at least it would be very pleasant for me. I met a friend some days ago that comes from Georgia, Asia. He told me 3 beautiful toasts, that I want to share with you all. The first one is about friendship (beers) !!!

At a dinner in Georgia, there is a very important person ( I forgot how he is called, I'm sorry) that is respected a lot by everyone else. Nobody can drink more than this person and if soemone does, that is considered as a lack of respect for this person.. let's call him - the Oldest one. During a holiday, at a dinner, the Oldest one noticed that one man was drinking two glasses of wine and felt offended. He asked that man :
"- How come that you have two glasses at the same time, while I drink only one, this means you don't respect me.
-Last year my best friend died and he asked me always to drink in his place at holidays." The Oldest one found this excuse acceptable and admired the man for his devotion.
A year passed and these two persons met again at a dinner and this time, the Oldest one noticed that the man was drinking only a glass of wine each time and thought that the man was not honest with him. He approached to the man and asked:
"-Why are you having just one glass of wine now? Have you forgotten your friend? You don't drink in his place anymore.
-I drink just one glass of wine because I'm very ill and not allowed to have alcohol, so I drink just in my friend's place."

I found this toast very touching and powerful! Does anyone has other examples of this kind?

fantastic thread i'll try to add one more:

on graves they always write :

lived from 19XX - (dash yap?) XXXX so let's drink for that dash cause that's biggest treasure we have.

P.s i hope my toast is easy to understand, it was quite difficult to translate from georgian

P.p.s thanks tilly for promoting georgian toasts BTW "the Oldest one" on georgian(not only georgian but caucasus too) dinner is called tamada and he is president, speaker and prime minister of all the people sitting around the table at that moment.

hi Guram!
 

Hi Guram and welcome to this forum !

It's really nice to see you here :) And thanks for the toast, it is deep, as all toasts should be:) and sorry for forgeting the "tamada" notion :(

thanks for warm welcome tilly :)
ok another toast:

I'll drink for a special person the person whome i love so much that i miss her/she even when she/he is standing in front of me.

p.s it seems it's very difficult to translate toasts to english .. quite pitty they sound far more better in georgian

:)
 

Dear Guram, these kind of toasts sound good in any language, as they promote great human values ;-)b

whats thiss
 

what is this all about?Toast? i thougt it was about cocktails lool well me and cocktails have something very in common which is were both mix and we both have a naughty side :p
i would like to propose a toast to ....... and now lets get wild xxx

(beers)
I drink to your health when I'm with you,
I drink to your health when I'm alone,
I drink to your health so often,
I'm starting to worry about my own!
P-)