Блеснуть остроумием в деловом мире - cпичи, тосты

It is better to leave your audience before your audience leaves you.

Завершить наши заметки (надеемся, что они действительно оказались полезными) хотелось бы на веселой ноте. Юмор, шутки, каламбуры, тосты всегда помогут разрядить трудную ситуацию или оживить дискуссию. Возможно, что-то из нашей коллекции пригодится и вам.

ШУТЛИВЫЕ ТОСТЫ

Drink to the man who keeps his head though he loses his heart!
to keep one's head - не терять головы
to lose (one's) heart - 1. падать духом; 2. воспылать любовью

May we never feel want or ever want feeling!
feel want - испытывать нужду
want feeling - испытывать недостаток чувств
Пусть никогда не будет нужды, и…. нехватки чувства сострадания.

Here's to the host who carved the roast. And a toast to the hostess - may she never "roast" us.
to carve - резать, нарезать;
roast - мясо, запеченное в духовке;
to roast - 1. жарить, печь, запекать; 2. жестоко критиковать

May your coffee and slander against you ever be alike - without grounds.
slander - клевета
ever be alike - всегда быть схожим
grounds - 1. кофейная гуща; 2. oснования, причины

May Dame Fortune ever smile on you, but never her daughter - Miss Fortune.
Dame Fortune - госпожа Фортуна
Miss Fortune - мисс Фортуна; misfortune - беда, несчастье, неудача

• To health, love, success... and time to enjoy it.
• Let's drink to each other's health… and spoil our own a bit.
• Bottoms up. ("Пей до дна") - не произносить этот тост при моряках: bottom - дно судна
• (Let's take) One for the road! - На посошок!
• To the future which belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

"УМНЫЕ" ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ

Millionaire: a man who travels between his air-conditioned home and air-conditioned office in an air-conditioned car, then pays $ 50 to go over to the steam room at the club and sweat.

Rich man: one who isn't afraid to ask the clerk to show him something cheaper.

The most successful business man: the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

ВСЕОБЩИЕ ЗАКОНЫ ЖИЗНИ

• The shortest way to get a job done is to give it to the busiest man you know - he'll have his secretary do it.
• Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
• Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
• If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you are right.
• If you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
• Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
• Failing to plan is planning to fail.
• Small is beautiful.

AНЕКДОТЫ "В ТЕМУ"

"Don't you know drinking is a slow death?"
"So who's in a hurry?"

"Have you and your boss ever had any differences of opinion?"
"Yes, but he doesn't know it!"

Two men were seated together in a crowded street car.
One of them noticed that the other had his eyes closed.
"What's the matter, Bill," he asked, "feeling ill?"
"I'm all right," answered Bill, "but I hate to see ladies standing."

Employer: "Personal appearance is a helpful factor in business success."
Employee: "Yes, and business success is a helpful factor in personal appearance."