Horace Greeley Quotes

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Horace Greeley

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• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • True

• Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Strong
  • Regard
  • Jealous

• We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Faces
  • Boxes

• And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?

  

  William Allen Butler
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Identity
  • Established
  • Cigar

• What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar

  

  Thomas R. Marshall
  • Country
  • Needs
  • Cents

• 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
  • Human Beings
  • Meal
  • Cigar

• Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Food

• Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Pay
  • Therapy
  • Smoke

• There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Cigar

• 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
  • Problem
  • Worry
  • Becoming

• I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Way

• The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

  

  Steven Burd
  • Done
  • Challenging
  • Communicating

• We live in a nation where corporations are people.

  

  Lizz Winstead
  • People
  • Live

• It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Work
  • Energy

• I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Real
  • Apartment
  • Queer Eye

• Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please "research".

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Lord

• If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Think
  • Drug

• Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Decision
  • Ends
  • Three

• The creative aspect is the most rewarding for me. By that, I mean seeing a concept come to life. It's the part where I sit in my restaurant Tabun Kitchen on a Friday night, listen to the buzz and see the delight on people's faces as they eat, soaking in and enjoying the atmosphere.

  

  Hanan Kattan
  • Atmosphere
  • Tabun Kitchen

• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Cigar