Quotes on Smoking

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

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.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

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

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

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

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.