On Smoking Cigars - The Quotes
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On Smoking Cigars
"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." - Mark Twain
"If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go." - Mark Twain
"Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight." - Charles Sprague, To My Cigar"And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed
"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
"A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. " - Klinger on M*A*S*H, Bug-Out, 1976
"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke." - Groucho Marx
"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity." - Charles Dickens
"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar." - Mark Twain
"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar." - Groucho Marx
"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." - Winston Churchill
"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. " - Mark Twain
"I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something." - George Burns
"If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it." - George Burns
"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
"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." - Edward G. Robinson
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud
"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." - Joseph Conrad
"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." - Fidel Castro
"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar!" - Thomas Marshall, Vice-president of Woodrow Wilson
"A fine cigar is like a fine woman. They come in all shapes and sizes. Treat them tenderly and lovingly. Caress their skin, admire their beauty, fondle them with reverence. Bring them slowly to your lips, enjoy their flavor, their aroma. Contemplate their essence, their dependability, and forgive them their weaknesses - if there be any. Revel in the rituals, their simplicity and their enduring meanings. Do these things, my son, and the blessings of life shall always be upon you." - Jawaad Abdullah