Tobacco Quotes - Page 14

• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Doctors

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

  James Thurber

  Animal, Men, Law

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Giving, Water, Magic

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Aug 10, 2010

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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Coffee, Alcohol

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

  Paul Dudley White

  Wish, Fertilizer

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Stories, Answers

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

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• Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Kentucky, Numbers

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• Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Emotional, Tea

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• Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum

  John Candy

  Years, Smoking, Hey

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Horse, Fall

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• Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.

  Peter Boyle

  Men, Europe, Numbers

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• I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

  Hank Sauer

  Marijuana, Smoking, Chewing

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