Toasts For New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve is a time to toast to a new beginning and usher in the New Year with hopes of continued or increased prosperity, friendships, laughter, joy, and good health. Whether you have in hand a glass of champagne, toddy, or sparkling cider, here are some sayings to help you make a poignant and memorable toast for a Happy New Year.
New Years Eve Toasts
Anonymous
Here’s a toast to the future, a toast to the past, and a toast to our friends, far and near. May the future be pleasant, the past a bright dream. May our friends remain faithful and dear.
Traditional Irish Toast
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.
Anonymous
May we live to learn well, and learn to live well. May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
Benjamin Franklin
Be at war with your voices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.
Anonymous
Here’s to our friends, and the strength to put up with them.
T.S. Eliot
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
Traditional Irish Saying
May the Lord keep you in his hand and never close his fist too tight on you. And may the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be toward us in the New Year.
Anonymous
As you slide down the banisters of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.
Jean Paul
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
Anonymous
May you never lie, cheat, or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each other’s arms.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, drink with all of us because we love you
Traditional Irish Saying
As we start the New Year, let’s get down on our knees to thank God we’re on our feet.
William Feather
Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got.
Anonymous
Cheers to you, Cheers to me, Have a Happy New Year’s Eve!
Anonymous
Love to one, friendship to many, and good will to all.
If you are fortunate to be in the company of those most important to you on New Year’s Eve, toast the occasion with a heartfelt or witty saying, and make the night memorable.