"A cigarette is like a quick flirtation, a cigar like a demanding lover, but a pipe is like a wife." Michael Ende, German author (including Jim Button, Momo, The Neverending Story)
"Before answering a question, one should always light one's pipe." Albert Einstein
"Nowhere in the world will such a 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 (1802-1885), French writer
"Pipe smoking contributes to a reasonably objective and serene judgment on human affairs." Albert Einstein
"Man is nothing other than his design; he exists only to the extent that 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. He who lives without tobacco is not worth living!" Molière (1622–1673), French actor, theater director, and playwright.
"First God created man, then he created woman. Then he felt sorry for man and gave him tobacco." Mark Twain (1835–1910), American writer
"If you can't smoke in heaven, I don't want to go there." Mark Twain (1835–1910), American writer
"...in a community of pipes is a community of hearts." Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist, poet, and essayist—most important work: Moby Dick
"Tobacco is not a trivial thing, although the smoke may seem fleeting. From its ashes one can read what a person truly means in their heart, for it unites human spirits more than treasures and all possessions." Gottlieb Stolle (1673 - 1744), German scholar and poet
"Pipe smoking characterizes a person like a religious habit. The way they hold the pipe, bring it to their lips, and tap out the ash reveals the smoker's personality, habits, passions, and even their thoughts." E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), German writer
"It is better to be without a wife for a while than without tobacco for an hour." Estonian proverb
"I recently read in the newspaper that smoking is unhealthy. I have given up reading." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman
"To believe that we are doing something while doing nothing is the chief illusion of tobacco." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher, writer, and leader of the Transcendentalists
"Tobacco is not an insignificant thing, although its smoke may seem fleeting. From its ashes one can read what a person means in their heart, for it binds together more than treasures and all goods, the human mind." Gottlieb Stolle (1673–1744), German scholar and poet
"Pipe smoking characterizes a person like a religious habit. The way he holds the pipe, brings it to his lips, and taps out the ash reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts." E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), German writer
"It is better to be without a wife for a while than without tobacco for an hour." Estonian proverb
"I recently read in the newspaper that smoking is unhealthy. I've given up reading." Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman
"To believe that we are doing something while doing nothing is the chief illusion of tobacco." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American philosopher, writer, and leader of the Transcendentalists
"A pipe without tobacco is like a brain without ideas." E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), German writer
"The smoke from a pipe can carry thoughts to heaven." Manfred Poisel (*1944), German advertising copywriter
"Tolerance can be learned from smokers. No smoker has ever complained about a non-smoker." Alessandro Pertini (1896-1990), Italian politician
"Smoking is a ritual to drive away evil spirits, such as non-smokers." Wolfram Weidner (*1925) German journalist
"Where there's smoking, you can wait patiently; evil people never have cigars..." David Kalisch (1820-1872) German writer
"That's how it is with tobacco and rum: first you're happy, then you fall over." Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) German cartoonist, painter, and writer
"He who keeps his mouth shut because he's wrong is wise. He who keeps his mouth shut even though he's right is married or a pipe smoker." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish-British playwright, politician, satirist, and music critic
"If you renounce smoking, drinking, and sex, you don't live longer—it just seems that way." Sir Clement Raphael Freud (1924–2009), British novelist, journalist, television presenter, politician, and chef.
"A half-smoked pipe is precious to every smoker." Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist.
"According to our European customs, tobacco smoke is 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 they truly and sincerely wish to say." Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian.
"The pipe tastes wonderful, its neck is so familiarly curved, the wood is saturated with tobacco; this pipe you'll take with you to the grave." Kurt Tucholsky (1890 - 1935), German journalist and writerÂ
"Tobacco is the food of the hungry, fire and warmth for the cold, the best companion of the lonely as well as the alert man, and the refreshment of sorrowful hearts." Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), English Anglican clergyman, theologian, and writerÂ
"There is nothing like tobacco. It is the passion of honest people, and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy to live." Molière (1622 - 1673), French actor, theater director, and playwright
"All things are poison; the dose alone makes them not a poison." Paracelsus (1493–1541), physician, alchemist, astrologer, mystic, lay theologian, and philosopher
"The Indians invented smoking, which is the greatest of all inventions and the only true cultural progress since the beginning of the world." Victor Auburtin (1870–1928), German journalist and writerÂ
"Pipe smokers prove that they know how to enjoy life and practice moderation." Dieter Schulte (born 1940), German trade unionist
"Tobacco is a noble herb, whether you smoke it, snuff it, or chew it." (Proverb)