Other Toasts

Vigorous toasting is welcome and traditional at most Burns Suppers – you will likely find as the evening goes on these toasts become more common and more agreeable. Below are a few of the toasts that have made their way into our annual Burns Night celebration.

Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;
But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
I am as good as your are, as bad as I am.
- Old Scottish Toast

Speaker 1: Here's tae us!
Speaker 2: Wha's like us?
Speaker 1: Gey few...
Speaker 2: And they're a' deid!
Speaker 1: (optional) Mair's the pity!
- The Unspeakable Scot

May the hinges of friendship never rust,
or the wings of luve lose a feather.
- Reminiscences of Scottish Life: A Toast

May the best you've ever seen
Be the worst you'll ever see;
May a moose ne'er leave yer girnal
Wi' a teardrop in his e'e.
May ye aye keep hale and hearty
Till ye're auld enough tae dee,
May ye aye be just as happy
As I wish ye aye tae be.
- Allan Ramsay of Ayr.

Here's to all those that I love.
Here's to all those that love me.
And here's to all those that love those that I love,
And all those that love those that love me.
-unknown

Here's to me and here's to you,
And if in the world
There was just us two
And I could promise that nobody knew
Would you?
-unknown

I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet,
Wi' a' the honours three.
- Henry Scott (Scot) Riddell