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Random quote: "A Smoking Ban in Pubs? My Grandfather would have be appalled." Winston Churchill's Great Grandson & Fellow Cigar-Smoker Jonathon Sandys.

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kevree	"Gentlemen.....you may smoke" - Edward VII
kevree	"If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I shall not go" - Mark Twain
kevree	"If I paid $10 for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it." - George Burns
kevree	"Blessed be the man who invented smoking, the soother and comforter of a troubled spirit, allayer of angry passions, a comfort under loss of breakfast, and to the roamer of desolate places, the solitary wayfarer through life, serving for wife, children, and friends." - Anon.
kevree	"There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar." - Demi Moore
kevree	"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit." - Jack Nicholson
kevree	"A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world" - Franz Liszt
kevree	"A Havana Cigar is to the art of smoking what a great wine is to the art of drinking" - Alan Senderens
kevree	"Heaven is a large Havana cigar with black coffee for breakfast" - Rev Thaddeus Birchard
kevree	"The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar" - Evelyn Waugh
kevree	"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar." - Mark Twain
kevree	"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." - Mark Twain
kevree	"If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." - George Burns
kevree	"There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall." - Fidel Castro
kevree	"If your wife doesn't like the aroma of you cigar, change your wife" - Zino Davidoff
kevree	"Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive" - Michael Douglas
kevree	"Aficionado my ass ! I just like to smoke cigars" - James Woods
kevree	"I lit a Havana......and that was the day I was born" - Lord Lew Grade
kevree	"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman" - E.G Bulwer-Lytton
Void	A fine cigar is just like a woman. If you don't light it up just right and suck on it with a certain frequency, it will go out on you." - Unknown
ghopki	"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." - Mark Twain
bantamrooster	A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke." Groucho Marx
cigar-aficionado	"Jeez not another plugged cigar!" - Kevin Reed
cigar-aficionado	"What this country needs is a really good 5 cent cigar" - Thomas Riley Marshall, US Vice President 1920
kevree	"I think I'll settle in tonight with a DVD, a cigar and a large rum" - Andy Connew ;-)
cigar-aficionado	"Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss" - Sigmund Freud
cigar-aficionado	"Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and to decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you" - Sigmund Freud
cigar-aficionado	"The Vuelta Abajo is a natural hothouse, just as the whole island of Cuba is a natural humidor" - Bernard Wolfe, former secretary to Leon Trotsky
cigar-aficionado	"A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images" - George Sand
cigar-aficionado	"I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savour a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realised ambition which has not brought disillusion" - Somerset Maugham
cigar-aficionado	"If you kiss a cigar it will kiss you back. If you treat it like a dog it will turn round and bite you" - George Brightman
ghopki	"If you want to make enemies, try to change something" - Woodrow Wilson
ghopki	"Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar" - Sigmund Freud
cigar-aficionado	"In a hectic world cigars give people a chance for a pause. It's a ritual" - Michael Douglas
cigar-aficionado	"Until you've had a good cigar and a shot of whisky, you're missing out on the second and third best things in life" - Alan J Lerner, Paint Your Wagon
cigar-aficionado	"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" - Rudyard Kipling
cigar-aficionado	"I only smoke cigars with people I trust" - Saddam Hussein
kevree	"In order to be better, you must first be different" - Dr Amar Bose
kevree	"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls." - John Galsworthy
kevree	"There are two things a man never forgets - his first love and his first cigar." - John Bain
kevree	"They had no good cigars there, my lord; and I left the place in disgust." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, returning from Venice
kevree	"Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels." - Alfred de Musset
kevree	"A handmade cigar is a rebellion against frenzy and insanity; it means supporting contemplation over rash impulse, and represents a civilized revolution." - Steve Worthington
kevree	"I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch." - Mark Twain
kevree	"I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals." - Mark Twain
kevree	"To fully appreciate fine cigars, it's important to recognize the various types of cigars. There are two basic categories of cigar. The lit and unlit." - P. Martin Shoemaker
kevree	"On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul." - Stendhal
kevree	"A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit." - Zino Davidoff
kevree	"What is the difference between a $10 and a $2 cigar? Eight bucks." - Lew Rothman
Monty	"Here, have a cigar. Light it up and be somebody." From the film "Pete Kelly's Blues"
bantamrooster	"I can resist anything except temptation" Oscar Wilde
bantamrooster	"While smoking a cigar, we are in the presence of eternity. Prince Sined Yar Maharg,
bantamrooster	"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar." Groucho Marx
Poleson	"Rum, the breakfast of champions." Kevin Reed
Poleson	"My son told me I look like a movie star when I'm smoking a cigar. Aye, Lassie having a shite." Billy Connolly
kevree	'I neither coughed nor felt sick. Instead, a sensation of wellbeing filled me, and I became slightly wired, not the reaction you get from alcohol, but sharper and calmer.' - BBC reporter John Simpson, experiencing a cigar for the first time, Sunday Telegraph, July 1999
Jam	"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
Pipe Dude	"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar can be ground up and smoked in a pipe." - Pipe Dude
Pipe Dude	General "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf on his Cuban cigar habit: Interviewer - "Don't you consider it as aiding the enemy?" General - "No, I consider it as burning his crops - one at a time."
Pipe Dude	"Don't get upset, drink plenty of coffee, and smoke." -Javier Pereira (allegedly 167 years old) on the secrets to longevity.
Pipe Dude	"To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine." - Anon
Pipe Dude	"After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings." - Brad Shaw
Pipe Dude	"The end of a good smoke is a little saddening. In some regard, it's a bit like losing a best friend who had time to sit and listen." - ZenWarrior
Seriesteve	"You don't have to be a star, to smoke a cigar" -- Puffalobill
merixon	"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle." - George F. Burns
merixon	"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud
merixon	"Pull out a Montecristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist." Martyn Harris, British journalist, Daily Telegraph 1/20/89
merixon	"Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival." -- William Makepeace Thackeray, English Author
merixon	"My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you." -- Sigmund Freud - to his young nephew, Harry, after he declined a cigar
merixon	"Every cigar goes up in smoke." -- Brazilian proverb
merixon	"Where there's a good smoke there's a cigar smoker." -- Cuban saying
merixon	"Would you want to drink a good wine with a straw?" -- Zino Davidoff, in reference to using cigar holders
merixon	"The best cigar in the world is the one you prefer to smoke on special occasions, enabling you to relax and enjoy that which gives you maximum pleasure." -- Zino Davidoff
merixon	"A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world." -- Franz Liszt, Composer
merixon	"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity." -- Charles Dickens
merixon	"A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit." -- Zino Davidoff
merixon	"I am done - pay the bills and get me a cigar." -- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
merixon	"Personally I blame the Irish. Of all the joints in all the world, I would have laid bets that the reeking pubs of Dublin would be the last to fall victim to the Smoke Police. Instead they were meekly among the first." -- Keith Waterhouse, on new plans to ban smoking in public places in England
Maui	"Stragigery" George Bush
Maui	"Beer is proof that God loves man" Benijamin Franklin
nic	"I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something." George Burns
DrMike	"Come in here dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far" Pink Floyd
alexb	"If your wife doesn't like the aroma of your cigar, change your wife."Zino Davinoff
alexb	"When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross." Dirty Harry
alexb	"I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it." John Eskow
merixon	"....and then I decided to go for the nordic love god look instead" - Michael Eriksson, Pennyhill Park Hotel, 18th Dec 2004
Seriesteve	" 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 C Hacker
Seriesteve	"What this country needs is, wider roads, stronger beer and lower tobacco taxes" Paul Beresford
tenbears10	"I'll smoke anything anybody gives me, I'm not particular." Peter Falk
tenbears10	Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. Steve Allen
jocapesca	"The Last Cigar" Compay Segundo
Hoyo DC	"The Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz." Bill Cosby
Hoyo DC	"As you approach 30, you have a 30 ring gauge. As you approach 50, you have a 50 ring gauge." Cuban saying
Hoyo DC	"A cigar numbs sorrow and fills solitary hours with a million gracious images." George Sand
Hoyo DC	"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar" Thomas Marshall, US Vice President, 1919.
Hoyo DC	"Do not ask me to describe the charms of reverie, or contemplative ecstasy into which the smoke of our cigar plunges us." Jules Sandeau
Hoyo DC	"If you forget a line, all you have to do is stick the cigar in your mouth and puff on it until you can think of what you've forgotten." Groucho Marx
Hoyo DC	"The true smoker refrains from imitating Vesuvius." Auguste Barhelmy
Hoyo DC	"He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from Heaven." E.G. Bulwer-Lytton
Hoyo DC	"If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles the end of a five-cent cigar." Sacha Guitry
Hoyo DC	"My father was a cigar smoker, and he really appreciated a fine cigar...He used to smoke Cuban cigars and drink Spanish wine. And he taught me about both things." Fiedel Castro
Hoyo DC	"If a woman knows a man's prefereces, including his prefrence in cigars, and if a man knows what a woman likes, they will be suitably armed to face one another." Colette
Hoyo DC	"To smoke is human, to smoke cigars is divine." Anon
Hoyo DC	"Tobbacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams." Victor Hugo
Hoyo DC	"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill." George Burns
Hoyo DC	"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" Abe Lincoln
Hoyo DC	"A wisely chosen cigar to me, is like a weapon against certain of life's torments, in some mysterious way, a little blue smoke chases them away." Zino Davidoff
Hoyo DC	"I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club" Al Goldstein
Hoyo DC	"When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is I'm going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to." David Letterman
Hoyo DC	"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." Winston Churchill
Hoyo DC	"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar." Groucho Marx
Hoyo DC	"It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigar were placed on prescription." Malcolm Potts, MD
Hoyo DC	"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times." Mark Twain
Hoyo DC	"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
Hoyo DC	"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." Somerset Maugham
Hoyo DC	"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick." Mary Wilson
Hoyo DC	"We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid." Willa Sibert Cather
Hoyo DC	"No cigar anywhere was safe from me." Edward G. Robinson
Hoyo DC	"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name" Charles H. Spurgeon
Hoyo DC	"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The problem is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
Hoyo DC	"There are two things a man never forgets--his first love and his first cigar." John Bain
Hoyo DC	"After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings." Brad Shaw
Hoyo DC	"The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle." George Sand
Hoyo DC	"To know how to smoke is to recover certain forgotten rhythms, to re-establish communication with the self." Zino Davidoff
Hoyo DC	"A good cigar is like tasting a good wine: you smell it, you taste it, you look at it, you feel it; you can even hear it. It satisfies all the senses." Anon
Hoyo DC	"Cigar smoking knows no politics. It's about the pursuit of pleasure, taste, and aroma." Anon
Hoyo DC	"Cognac and cigars...it's like finding the perfect woman. When you've got her, why go chasing after another?" Michael Nouri
Hoyo DC	"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture." Samuel Fuller
Hoyo DC	"Lastly (and this is, perhaps the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke." Robert Louis Stevenson
Hoyo DC	"The enjoyment of a cigar after a hard week gives me a feeling of well-being and relaxation that a Valium could not match. While there may be a more ideal form of stress reduction, I haven't yet discovered anything else as effective and easy." Lou Gehrig
Hoyo DC	"I vow and believe that the cigar has been one of the greatest creature comforts of my life, a kind companion, a gentle stimulant, an amiable anodyne, a cementer of friendship." William Thackeray
Hoyo DC	"Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing." Joan Collins
Hoyo DC	"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls." John Galsworthy
Seriesteve	"The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius" Auguste Barthelmy
rubyz	"Listen, I love to smoke cigars, but sometimes I take them out of my mouth." - Groucho Marks, upon hearing from a female interviewee that she had had 12 children. (His TV show was cancelled as a result.)
Pipe Dude	"I might be setting a bad example for teenagers? How many teenagers do you know that can afford to buy a £14 cigar?" Sir Jimmy Saville O.B.E.
Pipe Dude	"The world's largest library is the private collection of Fidel Castro. It contains 13 percent more volumes than the Library of Congress." - www.gullible.info
stuart1746	"While smoking a cigar, we are in the presence of eternity. The tobacco reminds us of the earth, from which it and we came. As with ourselves, the life of some cigars are short, while others last a while longer, but in the end all are consumed. But the smoke, ah, the smoke! The smoke drifts gently heavenward on its quest to combine with the great eternal oneness." - Prince Sined Yar Maharg
kevree	"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die"
tony c	"A cigar numbs sorrows and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images?.For me, cigar smoking is part of the ritual of the fine art of living." - George Sand
Seriesteve	"Never in the field of herfing was so much smoked by so many and so little said about it" Howling
Maui	That depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Bill Clinton
Puff o'wind	Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends how much happiness you can handle. George Burns
Puff o'wind	Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
simon bolivar	"Gentlemen, the smoking lamp is lit." Trad. Said at end of formal USN Wardroom dinners.
simon bolivar	"If condemmed to smoke only one brand, I would have no hesitation that Bolivar would be the choice". Min Ron Nee
tony c	"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit."
simon bolivar	There's peace in a Por Larranaga, there's calm in a Henry Clay." Rudyard Kipling
simon bolivar	"Smoking is a dirty habit. A dirty habit for a dirty little girl."Lindsay Lohan, Actress
Mr Nozzle	I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car, they're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars.. Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues)
kurtz	''I drink Martini's, but two at the most! Three and I'm under the table. Four and I'm under the host!!'' Dorothy Parker
simon bolivar	"A Smoking Ban in Pubs? My Grandfather would have be appalled." Winston Churchill's Great Grandson & Fellow Cigar-Smoker Jonathon Sandys.
Verdi65	"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin" Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Verdi65	"The only difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is that the diamond had a little more pressure put on it" Anon
Verdi65	"What isn't tried won't work" Claude Mcdonald
Verdi65	"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" Eleanor Roosevelt
Verdi65	"If only Napoleon smoked cigars, nothing could have stopped him from reaching Havana and place it in the Louvre" Verdi65
Verdi65	"A cigar has '... a fire at one end and a fool at the other." Horace Greely
Verdi65	"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time." Mark Twain
Verdi65	"Where there's a good smoke there's a cigar smoker." Cuban saying
Verdi65	"Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss." Sigmund Freud
Verdi65	"To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine." Anon
Verdi65	"Earth ne'eer did breed such a jovial weed." Barten Holyday
Verdi65	"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman." E.G. Bulwer-Lytton Darnley
Verdi65	"A Romeo y Julieta is the icon of Cuba's love to any self respecting gentleman" Verdi65
Verdi65	"...the eternal attributes of prestige, success, and savoir faire." Italo Calvino describing the cigar
penrodpooch	"A good first Cigar heightens the senses and leaves you craving for more, a bad first Cigar leaves you craving to Right that Wrong". Penrodpooch
kurtz	"Any man under 30 who is not a liberal, has no heart. Any man who is over 30 and is not a Conservative, has no brain!" Winston Churchill
simon bolivar	'Standing in a cool stream with a mountian range or a meadow nearby, fly rod in hand & cigar in mouth, is the way God meant mankind to live.' Jon Margolis & Jeff MacNally Virtual Fly Box.
SteveGriff	They call him MC because he raps like no other, An asthma sufferer like Ernesto Guevara, Too much Montecristo Number Four Pass the ventolin I need some more - Hermann Loves Pauline by the Super Furry Animals
SteveGriff	So I’ll get some Montecristo’s, And we can all go see the band, Well I may not be a looker yeah, But I’ll help you any way I can - The Gutterati? by The Fratellis
Puff o'wind	"weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates man from the animals... except the weasel." - Homer J Simpson
simon bolivar	My biggest worry is that when I die, my wife will sell my Havanas for what I told her I'd paid for them. Paraphrasing Koos Brandt
LordLucan77	"l must put on a cigar" Sir W.Churchill
Mr Nozzle	“I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves.” Jack Handy
simon bolivar	'Only in fishing & smoking cigars an one find solitude without loneliness'. Paraphrasing G.M.McGillicuddy
simon bolivar	'There are no half measures when it comes to the dedication of a fisherman or a soldier' Nick Sawyer from 'Fishing on the Front Line'.
Seriesteve	"A herf is not a Herf if you're Not Herfin" - Mr Nozzle 01/12/2007 Aberdeen Inversnecky
kurtz	"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, "To My Cigar."
kurtz	"Love is like a cigar. If it goes out you can light it again, but it never tastes quite the same." - Lord Wavell, British feild marshal.
Mr Nozzle	'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing'. Edmund Burke
kurtz	"Give me my golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air". - Jack Benny.
tony c	When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. Bernie Mac
Puff o'wind	“The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them”
Puff o'wind	"Cigarettes are of the instant, cigars are for eternity."
Puff o'wind	"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar."
simon bolivar	"There's only two things in this world that a 'real man' needs: a cup of coffee & a good smoke." Johnny 'Guitar' Logan 1954 Flim Johnny Guitar.

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