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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
Sep 30, 2025
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
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.
There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
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.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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 than one cigar at a time.
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something.
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.