Live, Laugh, Smoke Cigars!

“It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.”
…Mark Twain

“A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.”
…Klinger

“The best cigar in the world is the one you prefer to smoke on special occasions, enabling you to relax and enjoy that which gives you maximum pleasure.”
…Zino Davidoff

“Why vent a little steam when you can blow some smoke”
… Barry – March 4, 2012

“There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.”
…Moliere Don Juan

“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; But sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.”
…Rudyard Kipling

“A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.”
…Samuel Fuller

“After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn’t involve two human beings.”
…Brad Shaw

“Women are jealous of cigars… they regard them as a strong rival.”
…William Makepeace Thackeray

“Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s enjoyment of his cigar.”
…Mark Twain

“Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of his life (of which everyone has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.”
…George Burrow

“A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.”
…Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“If I paid $10 for a cigar, first I’d make love to it, then I’d smoke it.”
…George Burns

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.”
…Sigmund Freud

“Do not ask me to describe the charms of reverie, or the contemplative ecstasy into which the smoke of our cigar plunges us.”
…Jules Sandea

“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.”
…E.G. Bulwer-Lytton Darnley

“Cigar smoking actively encouraged.”
…sign in a London restaurant

“I do not seek for fame A general with a scar; A private let me be, So I have my cigar…
Some sigh for this or that, My wishes don’t go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.”
…Thomas Hood

“By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.”
…John Galsworthy

“To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine.”
…Not known

“Gentlemen, you may smoke.”
…King Edward VII

“Cognac and cigars… it’s like finding the perfect woman. When you’ve got her, why go chasing after another?”
…Michael Nouri, Actor

“The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.”
…Evelen Waugh

“There are two things a man never forgets – his first love and his first cigar.”
…John Bain

“Any cigar smoker is friend, because I know how he feels.”
…Alfred de Musset

“Cigarettes are for chain-smoking, cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, cigars are for eternity.”
…G. Cabera Infante

“A handmade cigar is a rebellion against frenzy and insanity; it means supporting contemplation over rash impulse, and represents a civilized revolution.”
…Steve Worthington

“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

“Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.”
…Charles Dickens

“I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.”
…Mark Twain

“I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars…within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.”
…Mark Twain

“I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours’ labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.”
…Mark Twain

“Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life… I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.”
…Sigmund Freud

“That’s why I write in so many cigar-smoking heroes and villians who chomp their cigars.”
…Orson Welles

“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.”
…George Burns

“When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they’d say, ‘Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.’ Of course it’s also a good prop on the stage… When you can’t think of what you are supposed to say next, you take a puff on your cigar until you do think of your next line.”
…George Burns

“I started smoking these little Italian cigars just so there was some of that smell in the air.”
…Francis Ford Coppola

 “You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.”
…Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, advice to Vice President Walter Mondale

“Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar”
…Groucho Marx

“A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.”
…George Sand

“…I promised myself that if I ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.”
…Somerset Maugham

“A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit.”
…Zino Davidoff

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.”
…Abraham Lincoln

“A fine cigar is just like a woman. If you don’t light it up just right and suck on it with a certain frequency, it will go out on you.”
…A Mystery Writer

“There’s something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It’s like a fine wine. There’s a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.”
…Demi Moore

“”If you can’t send money, send tobacco.” – (to the Continental Congress, 1776 )
…George Washington

“Fresh air makes me throw up. I can’t handle it. I’d rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.”
…Frank Sinatra

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”
…Winston Churchill

“If your wife doesn’t like the aroma of your cigar, change your wife.”
…Zino Davidoff

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”
…Winston Churchill

“Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don’t go far; The world may wag at will,
So I have my cigar.”
…Thomas Hood

“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”
…William Maginn