Quotes About Pipes

 

"A cigarette is like a quick flirt, a cigar like a demanding lover, but the pipe is like a partner for life." Michael Ende, German writer ( Jim Knopf, Momo, The endless story)

 

 

"Before answering a question you should always light your pipe first." Albert Einstein

 

 

"Nowhere in the world will such brotherly feeling of confidence be experienced as amongst those who sit together smoking their pipes." The Results and Merits of Tobacco, 1844, Doctor Bernstein

 

 

"Tobacco transforms thoughts into dreams." Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1855), French writer 

 

 

"Pipe smoking contributes to a reasonably objective and calm judgement on human affairs." Albert Einstein 

 

 

"A human is nothing other than his design; he exists only to the extent he unfolds." Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980, French philosopher and self-confessed pipe smoker

 

 

"Whatever Aristotle and philosophy may say - there is nothing like tobacco. Anyone who lives without tobacco is not worth living!" Molière (1622 - 1673), French actor, theater director and playwright

 

 

"At first, God created the man, then the woman. Then he felt sorry for the man, so he gave him the tobacco." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) US-american writer

 

 

"If I can´t smoke in heaven, I don´t want to go there." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) US-american writer

 

 

" ... in a community of pipes is a community of hearts." Hermann Melville (1819 - 1891) American writer, poet, essayist - most important work: Moby Dick

 

 

"Tobacco is not a trivial creature, although the soke seems fleeting. From it´s ashes you can read what someone means in their hearts, because more than treasure and all goods , it connects human minds." Gottlieb Stolle (1673 - 1744) German scholar and poet

 

 

"Pipe smoking characterizes a person like a religious garment. The personality, habits, passions and even the thoughts of the smoker can be recognized by the way they hold the pipe, put it to their lips, knocks out the ashes." E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822) German writer 

 

 

"It´s better to be some time without a woman, than be without tobacco for an hour."  Proverb in Estonia

 

 

"The other day I read in the newspaper, that smoking is unhealthy. I gave it up, the reading." Sir Winston Churchhill (1874 - 1965) British statesman

 

 

"Believing that we are doing something while we are doing nothing is the main illusion of tobacco." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US-american philosoph,writer and transcendentalist leader

 

 

"A pipe withut tobacco, it´s like a brain without ideas." E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822) German writer

 

 

"The smoke of a pipe can carry thoughts all the way up to the sky." Manfred Poisel (*1944) German copywriter

 

 

"You can learn tolerance from the smokers. No smoker has ever complained about a non-smoker."  Alessandro Pertini (1896 - 1990) Italian politician

 

 

"Smoking is a ritual to drive out evil spirits, as an example non-smoker." Wolfram Weidner (*1925) German journalist 

 

 

"Whereever you smoke, you can stay there, bad people never have cigars..." David Kalisch (1820 - 1872) German writer

 

 

"That´s how it goes with tobacco and rum; first you´re happy, then you fall over." Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908) German artist, painter and writer

 

 

"He who keeps his mouth shut because he´s wrong is a wise man. He who keeps his mouth shut even though he is right, is either married or a pipe smoker." Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish-british playwright, politician, satirist and music critic 

 

 

 

"If you give up smoking, drinking and sex, you don't live longer - it just seems that way." Sir Clement Raphael Freud (1924 - 2009) British writer, journalist, television presenter, politician, chef

 

 

“A half-smoked pipe is precious to every smoker.” Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850) French writer

 

 

"Tobacco smoke is, according to our European customs, the only
element in which men can sit together in silence without becoming 
embarrassed, and in which no one is forced to utter a single word
more than he really and truly wants to say." Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881) Scottish essayist and historian

 

 

"The pipe tastes wonderful, its neck is curved so familiarly, the wood 
is soaked with tobacco; you will take this pipe with you to your grave."
 Kurt Tucholsky (1890 - 1935) German journalist and writer

 

 

"Tobacco is the food of the hungry, fire and warmth of the cold, the best companion of the lonely as well as the awake man and the refreshment of sad hearts." Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) English Anglican clergyman, theologian and writer

 

 

"There is nothing like tobacco. It is the passion of honest people and
whoever lives without tobacco is not worthy of living." Molière (1622 
- 1673) French actor, theater director and playwright

 

 

"All things are poison, the dose alone makes them not poison."
 Paracelsus (1493 - 1541) doctor, alchemist, astrologer, mystic,
 lay theologian and philosopher

 

 

"The Indians invented smoking, which is the greatest of all inventions and the only real cultural advance since the beginning of the world." Victor Auburtin (1870 - 1928) German journalist and writer.

 

 

"Pipe smokers prove that they know how to enjoy life and exercise 
moderation." Dieter Schulte (*1940) German trade unionist

 

 

 

"Tobacco is a noble herb, whether you smoke it, snort it or chew it." Vernacular