Since the 15th century, when europeans where first introduced to tobacco, men of all walks of life have waxed poetic over the simple pleasures of a fine cigar.

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I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves. ~Jack Handy

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. ~Roger Waters

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can’t think of what they might be. ~ Richard Carleton

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. ~ Mark Twain

If your wife doesn't like the aroma of your cigar, change your wife. ~ Zino Davidoff

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar. ~Groucho Marx

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

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go. ~ Mark Twain

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time. ~Mark Twain

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. ~Mark Twain

I've got a great cigar collection. It's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em. ~Ron White

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. ~Edward G. Robinson

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ~Sigmund Freud

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar. ~Thomas R. Marshall

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. ~Aldous Huxley

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. ~George Burns

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace. ~Raul Julia

As you approach thirty, you have a thirty ring gauge; as you approach fifty, you have a fifty ring gauge. ~Cuban saying

Allah made tobacco grow to put a smile on the faces of men. ~A Turkish proverb

I have been a servant of Love for barely a twelve-month clear,
But I have been a Priest of Partagas a matter of seven year;
Open the old cigar box - let me consider anew -
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
~Rudyard Kipling, "The Betrothed"