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

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Penguin, 1. mai 2001 - 304 pages
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.

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About the author (2001)

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.

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