Toasts for Every Occasion: Warm, Wise, and Witty Words Collected from Around the World

by Jennifer Rahel Conover

Overview

This entertaining and comprehensive guide includes more than 1,300 heartwarming, hilarious, cynical, and sentimental toasts for any party or occasion.

Called upon to make a toast at your daughter’s dirthday? Your boss's baby'shower? Your brother's wedding? Your sister's divorce? Don't worry about what to say. Pour everyone a drink and relax. Your wit is about to get sharpened for you...

Featuring all the right words for all right occasions by Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, W.C. Fields, Bette Davis, Jack London, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, John Barrymore, P.J. O'Rourke, Miss Piggy, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Mae West, Walter Winchell, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gloria Steinhem and hundreds of others who never worried about being at a loss for words.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451203014
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.98(w) x 10.92(h) x 0.67(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Rahel Conover comes from a family of diplomats and politicians. Her maternal grandfather, the Honorable Joseph E. Davies, was ambassador to both Russia and Belgium and his wife, legendary cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, was her step-grandmother. She has worked as a high fashion model, an interior designer (for President Nixon’s Winter White House), and with her husband, Ted, in the yacht charter business. Currently an award-winning photo/journalist specializing in travel and yachting, she is published regularly in magazines, newspapers, and in-flight magazines throughout the world. She lives in South Florida with her husband and their Ragdoll cat, Kat...mandu.

Editorial Reviews

Editor Jennifer Rahel Conover has discovered hundreds of toasts that are superbly witty, wise, and unfamiliar. To this nonpareil collection she's added a historical introduction with fascinating sidelights. For example, did you know that the Romans appointed toastmasters to prevent guests from drinking too much; or that during the Middle Ages, when poisoning was common, toasting provided a polite way of proving to visitors that the wine was safe to drink? Sample toasts: "The health of a salmon to you: A long life, a full heart, and a wet mouth." And Dorothy Parker's immortal, "Three be the things I shall never attain,/Envy, content, and sufficient champagne!"

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