If I'm not mistaken, I think the quote was:
"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
Of course, the most famous cigar quote comes from King Edward VII of England. During the reign of Queen Victoria, smoking was frowned upon and not allowed at court. That changed when Edward VII came to the throne at the beginning of the 20th Century, and after dinner pronounced, "Gentlemen, you may smoke."
Probably equally as famous as King Edward's quote, writer, Rudyard Kipling, wrote in the 'The Betrothed', "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke."
Also, by an unknown author, it was said that, "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."
The ladies, too, are getting into the act. Actress and cigar smoker, Demi Moore, says, "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."
But my all time favorite is ...
"If I cannot smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go!" --- Mark Twain
Others are ...
"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, Radio Announcer
"If I paid $10 for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it." --- George Burns
"What this country needs is a good 5-cent cigar." ---Thomas Marshall, Vice President as said in the Senate in 1919
"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar." --- Mark Twain
"The Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, and certain weeds whose smoke they inhale which are dry weeds stuffed into a certain dry leaf in the form of a muset made of paper, like the ones the children make on the day of the Holy Ghost; and burning a part of it, from the other part they suck or absorb or admit the smoke with breathing." ---Christopher Columbus, from his Navigation diary
"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar." --- Groucho Marx
"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
"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity." --- Charles Dickens
"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." --- Mark Twain
"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit." --- Jack Nicholson, explaining why he switched from cigarettes to cigars
"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
I guess I kind of ruined it for others, eh? Don't you just love 'cut 'n paste?
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