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The Japan–United States Friendship Act of 1975 seek to establish a cooperative peacetime friendship through the exchange of artistic and cultural endowments. The United States statute is a declaration stating a Japan–United States friendship will provide a global model partnership leading to future peace, prosperity, and security in Asia .
Toasts may be solemn, sentimental, humorous, bawdy, [11] or insulting. [12] The practice of announcing one's intention to make a toast and signalling for quiet by rapping on the wineglass, while common, is regarded by some authorities as rude. [8] Except in very small and informal gatherings, a toast is offered standing.
Hákonar saga góða's account in Fríssbók of toasts being made til árs ok friðar.. Til árs ok friðar ("For a good year and peace") is an Old Norse ritual formula recorded in association with Old Nordic religious practices such as drinking at blót-feasts and in the making of offerings at howes, in particular in association with Freyr.
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Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1889. The waltz was originally titled Hand in Hand and was intended as a toast made in August of that year by Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph I on the occasion of his visit to the German Emperor Wilhelm II where it was symbolic as a 'toast of friendship' extended by Austria-Hungary to the German Empire.
"Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected." – C.J. Langenhoven "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Nimrod gave, 'The Royal Staghounds'; Crane gave, 'Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends. '" Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838), ch. 12, by R. S. Surtees; a line delivered as a toast by actor Russell Johnson from the 1961 TV series Thriller, season 1, episode 16, "The Hungry Glass", based on a story by Robert Bloch
Laelius de Amicitia (Latin text at Forum Romanum); Laelius de Amicitia at LacusCurtius (English translation by W. A. Falconer, with introduction); Treatises on Friendship and Old Age at Project Gutenberg (English translation by E. S. Shuckburgh, with introduction), in one file with the de Senectute.