Don Ursulo Cigar Stories (only in original language available)

Story 1: Das Hohe "C" der Zigarre (Deutsch)
Story 2: La Methode de Jacques Puisais (Deutsch)
Story 3: Streetfooding (Deutsch)
Story 4: True Story from Charlotte, North Carolina (Deutsch)
Story 5: Der Fachmann wider Willen (Deutsch)
Story 6: Die faule und die fleißige Cigarre (Deutsch)
Story 7: Extracts of the legendary Prince Sined Yar Maharg (English)
Story 8: Die Cigarre - Hüterin einer verlorenen Zeit (Deutsch)
Story 9: JFK's Humidor (Deutsch)
Story 10: Das Tier raucht nicht (Deutsch)
Story 11: Was der Connaisseur mit der Banderole macht... (Deutsch)
Story 12: Die Zigarren des Emil Bluemli (Deutsch)
Story 13: In dubio pro indio (Deutsch)
Story 14: La paciencia de un fumador de puros (Español)
Story 15: Das Öl im Kompass - Schöne rauchige Zitate (Deutsch)
Story 16: El peso del humo (Español)

Don Ursulo Cigar Interviews (only in original language available)

Interview 1:
Heinrich Villiger, Verwaltungsratspräsident der Zigarrenfirma Villiger Söhne,
über den verlorenen Kampf gegen das landesweite Rauchverbot, die Schweizer Bücklinge vor der EU und seine Geschäfte im Kuba von Fidel Castro, April 2010.
(Deutsch)




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Don Ursulo Famous Cigar Quotes

"If I cannot smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go!"
Mark Twain

"Cigarettes are of the instant, cigars are for eternity."
G. Cabrera Infante

"Der Genuss einer guten Zigarre lässt uns an Zeiten zurückerinnern,
die es gar nicht gegeben hat."
Oscar Wilde

"Man kann die Zeit nicht anhalten. Aber man kann sie für kurze Momente
vergessen. Mit einer Don U Zigarre wird einem während diesem Genuss-
moment jene Zeit geschenkt, von der man sonst doch immer glaubt, man
hätte sie nur, wenn man sie sich stiehlt."
Unbekannt

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke."
Rudyard Kipling

"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture."
Samuel Fuller

"A fine cigar is giving me the time - time - to be myself"
Don Ursulo, April 1999

"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

Try new cigars. Refrain from the snobbery:
"The best cigar you will ever smoke might be the next one you try."
Richard Perelman

"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."
Demi Moore

"My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life,
and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you."
Sigmund Freud to his young nephew, Harry, after he declined a cigar

"Cigar smoking knows no politics. It's about the pursuit of pleasure,
taste, and aroma."
Anonymous

"A good cigar is like tasting a good wine: you smell it, you taste it,
you look at it, you feel it - you can even hear it. It satisfies all the senses."
Anonymous

"He who has money smokes cigars but he who has no money smokes paper."
an old Spanish saying

"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

"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

"Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels."
Alfred de Musset

"I smoke cigars when I win, to celebrate ... and I smoke cigars
when I lose to console myself."
Winston Churchill

"Cigars change thoughts into dreams."
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885)

"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

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

"The best cigar in the world is the one you prefer to smoke on special
occasions, enabling you to relax and enjoy that which gives you
maximum pleasure."
Zino Davidoff

"A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world."
Franz Liszt, Composer

"Pull out a Montecristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns
into the nicotine facist."
Martyn Harris

"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

"The Germans are the most philosophical people in the world, an
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 his life (of which everyone has his share) not only
decently, but dignifiedly."
George Burrow

"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk,
and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Moliere Don Juan

"For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive
at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression
they confide their views to none; But sometimes in a smoking room,
one learns why things were done."
Rudyard Kipling

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an
after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened
by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told - even if ther
happens to be any end to it."
Joseph Conrad

"There's peace in Larranaga, there's calm in Henry Clay,
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
Rudyard Kipling

"Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival."
William Makepeace Thackeray

"If a woman knows a man's preferences, including his preference in
cigars, and if a man knows what a woman likes, they will be suitably
armed to face one another."
-Colette

"Every cigar goes up in smoke."
Brazilian proverb

"Where there's a good smoke there's a cigar smoker."
Cuban saying

"Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss."
Sigmund Freud

"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman."
E.G. Bulwer-Lytton Darnley

"Any cigar smoker is friend, because I know how he feels."
Alfred de Musset

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."

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

An unknown Englishman once said, "Blessed be the man who invented
smoking, the soother and comforter of a troubled spirit, allayer of angry
passions, a comfort under loss of breakfast, and to the roamer of desolate
places, the solitary wayfarer through life, serving for wife, children, and
friends."

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."

Comment made to my wife, "Honey, I am a perfectionist. I have smoked
thousands of cigars in my life. I will stop when I find the perfect one or
am too old to hold one, most likely the latter."
(Stefan Suratt, Seoul, Korea)

"Sie sollten das Haus niemals ohne eine Zigarre verlassen."
Bill Cosby, Amerikanischer Schauspieler

"In ancient times, when the land was barren and people were starving,
the Great Spirit sent forth a woman to save humanity. As she traveled
over world, everywhere her right hand touched the soil, there grew
potatoes. Everywhere her left hand touched the soil, there grew corn.
And when the world was rich and fertile, she sat down and rested.
When she arose, there grew tobacco..."
-Amerindian myth-