Smoking Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Heaven

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

  Bob Dole

  Drinking, Kids, Milk

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• 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

  Men, Cigarette Smoke, Pleasure

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

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• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cleaning, Filling, Mischief

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• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Toil, Virtue

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

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• Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, People

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• I promised myself that if 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Humorous, Ambition

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• I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Age

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Failure, Cigarette Smoke, Light

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Drug

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  Loni Anderson

  Hazards, Cigarette, Fetish

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• My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

  Katherine Heigl

  Quitting, Habit, Used

  "Katherine Heigl's 18-Month-Old Daughter Already Using Curse Words?" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2010.

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• If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

  Douglas Adams

  Fire, Cigarette Smoke, Action

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• Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Exercise, Done, Body

  Kenneth H. Cooper (1986). “Running without fear: how to reduce the risk of heart attack and sudden death during aerobic exercise”, Bantam

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Toil, Drs

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• 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

  Norman Lindsay

  Fur, Said, Glances

  Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Yards

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

  Ziggy Marley

  Marijuana, Thinking, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you mind if I don't smoke?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Orangutans, Mark

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• I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

  Richard Carleton

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Justice, Sometimes

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Reason, Cigarette

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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