My allergies are killing me. I can’t breathe. I can’t sing. I can’t talk. I sound like a 70-year-old man who’s been smoking cigars for 69 years, 11 months, and 29 days….kind of like Louis Armstrong. Which got me to thinking about some of the great quotes collected on cigars:



If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go.
                                                        -Mark Twain

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
                                             -Franklin D Roosevelt

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
                                                                            -Mark Twain (again)

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

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
                                                                                         -Rudyard Kipling

And my personal favorite,

"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,
and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful
to God, and have blessed His name." 

-Charles H Spurgeon, theolog whose ‘touched up’ portrait still
hangs in the round at SWBTS chapel. (By ‘touched up’, I
mean they’ve painted over the cigar he held in his hand
…and that makes me smile…)