Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

“Doing business with the judge on his porch meant having a toddy.”

— Anonymous

As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

— R. H. Bruce Lockhart

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

— Myrtle Reed

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

— Dario Fo

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

— Brendan Behan

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that…

— John Ray

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Work like you don't need the money.

— Joseph Joubert

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

— Michael Josephson

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead…

— Elvis Costello

Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give

— William Arthur Ward

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

— Euripides

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

— Ellen Goodman

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence…

— W. C. Fields