“Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is expected to respond to a toast.” Five hundred pages of jokes, stories and quotations filed A to Z, so the terrified speaker can find one fast.
There was an old man of Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man- And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.-Robert Burton.