Smoking Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Two, Balance, Three

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• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

  Geoffrey Perret

  Beach, War, Men

  Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster

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• The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

  George Henry Borrow

  Philosophy, Men, People

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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• What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. 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

  Pain, Want, Kind

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

  Trey Parker

  Vacation, Cigarette Smoke, People

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• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  Vin Diesel

  Dark, Marijuana, Reality

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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• Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good.

  Sunny Leone

  Drinking, Love You, Body

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• For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Cigarette Smoke, Firsts

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• Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Cigarette Smoke, Sticks

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• Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Taken, Men, Perfect

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

  Sam Manekshaw

  Leadership, Dance, Drinking

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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• What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

  Tug McGraw

  Funny, Weed, Baseball

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• It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Paul Newman

  Careers, Waking, Booze

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Thoughtful, Style, Mouths

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.242

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• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  Jackie Mason

  Death, Suicide, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

  Emile Zola

  Regret, Perfection, Nuisance

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• A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cigarette Smoke, Used, Consumers

  "Penalising Smokers to Help Us All Breathe Easy" by Rita Panahi, www.heraldsun.com.au. June 30, 2013.

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

  Harold Robbins

  Girl, Women, Light

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• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cancer, Hard Work, Might

  "The Second Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1966.

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