Sayings about Smoking
If your beard’s on fire, others will light their pipes on it. ~ Turkish Proverbs
It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour. ~ Estonian Proverbs
One may live without one’s friends but not without one’s pipe. ~ Irish Proverbs
The pipe is nearer than the wife. ~ Estonian Proverb
Only men with thick lips should smoke a cigar. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Enough food and a pipe full of tobacco makes you equal to the immortals. ~ Chinese Proverb
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke. ~ Irish Proverb
Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there’s only wind and smoke in the world. ~ Irish Proverb
Quotations about Smoking
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee. ~ Brock Fiant
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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
Tobacco saps the land, saps the purse, and saps the man. ~ James Lendall Basford
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan! ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn’t want to smoke, but I didn’t believe myself. ~ Barbara Kelly
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. ~ Russell Hoban
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life. ~ Brooke Shields
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ~ Moliere Quotes
Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs. ~ Author Unknown
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. ~ Lara Flynn Boyle
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. ~ Robert M. Gates
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. ~ Douglas Adams
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day – by dying. ~ Author Unknown
Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can’t find your cigarettes. ~ Author Unknown
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. ~ Mark Twain
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live. ~ Jean Baptiste Molière
The cigarette does the smoking — you’re just the sucker. ~ Author Unknown
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. ~ George D. Prentice
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~ Clement Freud
Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast. ~ Woody Allen
The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches. ~ Author Unknown
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts. ~ Edith Zittler
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. ~ King James I
Pipe–smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief. ~ Bill Vaughan
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics. ~ Liza Minnelli
A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other. ~ Author Unknown
It is quite a three-pipe problem. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple. ~ Damien Hirst
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ~ David Byrne
For more information on lung cancer, keep smoking. ~ The Lung Association of British Colombia
If you must smoke, take your butt outside. ~ Author Unknown
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 Quotes
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
There’s a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have. ~ Trey Parker
Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. ~ David Hockney
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. ~ Johnny Carson
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance. ~ Mark Twain
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. ~ Christy Turlington
I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God’s clean air. ~ Carrie Nation
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ~ Rudyard Kipling,
I’ve been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don’t feel safe breathing anything I can’t see! ~ Dave Beard
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. ~ Jay Leno
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late. ~ Loni Anderson