Smoking A Pipe Quotes

Smoking A Pipe Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, George D. Prentice, Bill Hicks, Katharine Whitehorn, Mark Twain and many others.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why

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.
Mignon McLaughlin
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
George D. Prentice
Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can’t find your fags.
Bill Hicks
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they’d only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine Whitehorn
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
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 Sargent
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.
King James I
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!
Lord Byron
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
Albert Einstein
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Douglas Adams
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.
Ben Jonson
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?
Oscar Wilde
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Mignon McLaughlin
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Charles Lamb
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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton