Talk:Tobacco
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edit- He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. :Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Gentlemen, you may smoke.
- [ending the long ban on smoking held by Queen Victoria in the early 20th Century]
- King Edward VII
- I'll smoke anything anybody gives me, I'm not particular.
- [Tobacco] is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
- Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin).
- If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.
- It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
- It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
- I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
- Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
- Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
- Looking back now, I have come to realize that she was my nicotine.
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
- The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.
- Jack Nicholson, explaining why he switched from cigarettes to cigars.
- Nobody has died because of not smoking, but why take a chance?
- Non-smokers...die every day. Sleep tight!
- Anti :
- My smoking might be bothering you, but it's killing me.
- Variation People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
- Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
- When I heard smoking will kill you I bought shares in Marlboro and Dunhill.
- A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
- Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
- Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
- Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.
- I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
- I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
- Variation: I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.
- I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
- If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.
- If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.
- 98 year old George Burns
- Cigars are like new life in a twisted world
- Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
- There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
- What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar!
- Thomas Marshall, Vice-president of Woodrow Wilson
- Cigar smoking is a hobby, not a habit.
- A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? :Oscar Wilde
- A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
- For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
- I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.
- To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.
- The only "safer" cigarette is your last one.
- There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.
- I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
- If you can't send money, send tobacco.
- George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776.
- Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
- Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
- The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.