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)
Perpetuum Fumabile
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Don Ursulo Famous Cigar Quotes
"If I cannot
smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go!"
Mark Twain
"A woman is
only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke."
Rudyard Kipling
"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
"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
"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
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-