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

By Jennifer Rahel Conover

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451203011
• ISBN13: 9780451203014
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Berkley / Nal
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

A most friendly source book for toasts

Toasts by Jennifer Rahel Conover - reviewed by Olive Mullet The reader might be first struck by the extent of the research for this book, the fact that the toasts come from all over (literature, her numerous sources at the end, from many countries and cultures - though the majority may be Irish). But I think the reader will most enjoy the wisdom and the humor. Just dipping into the book can't help but make the reader smile. Where the toast is hard to envision using, it is fun to read. But most are very usable, and Ms. Conover has done a great job of indexing and cross-referencing so that the reader can find what he needs, even easier than finding just the right card for someone. Ms. Conover has also added some very good toasts of her own. Her charming introduction shows how she comes naturally to this subject. And at the very end she encourages others to contribute to her collection. This is a very friendly book, easy to carry around, should you need it.

The Perfect Gift for Every Occasion

Fabulous! This was the perfect Father's Day gift - and will be my favorite gift to give for all occasions! Just perusing is provides delicious entertainment. I treasure having a FIRST EDITION and here's to many more!

The Champagne of Toasts

Jennifer Rahel Conover's talents are as many as the bubbles in champagne--endless and always rising to the top. Jennifer's pedigree, intelligence and wit are blended with her years of hobnobbing around the world to compile "Toasts For Every Occasion." Every host should own one. Every guest should give one as a gift! ---Kathleen Pickering, Author, "Echoes of Love"