Great Quotes

[Cigar-aficionado]

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect

Benny Hill

[Cigar-aficionado]

“My rule of life, prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite, smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

and another one...

"On Churchill's first meeting with Montgomery, the latter said, "Churchill asked me what I would drink and I replied - Water. This astonished him. I added that I neither drank nor smoked and was 100 per cent fit; he replied in a flash that he both drank and smoked and was 200 per cent fit."


Winston Churchill

[Boss Hog]

A man who travels the world in search of something he needs finds it when he returns home.

Never known who said it but I have always liked it.

[Big J]

"I feel sorry for people that don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day"

Ol Blue Eyes
Frank Sinatra

[Soulmanure]

"Tell me, do you hate people?"

"No, no, I just seem to feel better when they're not around."

Quote from Barfly (Bukowski)

Always loved that one.

[Habana-Habanos]

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ?William Arthur Ward

If you don?t make mistakes, you?re not working on hard enough problems. And that?s a big mistake. ?Frank Wilczek

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ?Albert Einstein

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. ?Martin H. Fischer

[satch]

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of another - Jane Austen.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures - Samuel Johnson.

I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot thinking about this and that - mostly that. I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like peices of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watch the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot toward the viod of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty, and as I looked at all this I thought "Must put a roof on the lavatory". - Les Dawson.

Countryside-the killing of Piers Morgan--Stephen Fry

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
-Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

Get the book 'Great British Wit' by Rosemarie Jarski.
Excellent littlest room reading.

[moppy]

We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. - Woody Allen

Oscar Wilde & Woody Allen are two of my favourite go to people when it comes to quotes. They both have really quality quotes.

[michael69]

"Told you I was Ill"

Spike Milligan's gravestone (don't know whether it actually is on his grave, but that's what he said he wanted)

[vince]

Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night .... Trust me !!!
Vince Orend , new years eve 1996

[Maxi-J]

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." - Hemingway

[nicwing]

"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink....... I'd spend it on drink"
Henry Rawlinson

Sir Henry at Rawinson End - Vivian Stanshall's Master work of British Humour.

[Havanaaddict]

Here are a few I like:

"The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar." Evelen Waugh, English writer

"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

"A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit." Zino Davidoff

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

[akreissl]

Human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is realised through education - Ibn Sina.

[EugeneSax]

"Bugger Bognor"

- George V's final words
(apparently in reply to his doctor who had just told him he'd soon be well enough to visit said resort).