Pipe Quotation Contest

[Hermit]

"Certain things are good for nothing until they have been kept for a long while; and some are good for nothing until they have been long kept and used. Of the first, wine is the illustrious and immortal example. Of those which must be kept and used I will name three-- meerschaum pipes, violins, and poems. The meerschaum is but a poor affair until it has burned a thousand offerings to the cloud-compelling deities...The fire is lighted in its central shrine, and gradually the juices which the broad leaves of the Great Vegetable has sucked up from an acre and curdled into a dram are diffused through its thirsting pores."
-Oliver W. Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

[Branzig]

"Woman! It is my health and my home! I do what I want! Now if you will excuse me, I have to go fold the laundry, finish the dishes, give the kids a bath, vacuum the living room, cook dinner...and then? Oh yeah, then I am going to go smoke a pipe! Hah!"

- Dr. Branzig

[Basment_Shaman]

Smoking Pipes and using Snuff that is what old men do. I said how do you think they got to be so old
-Basement_Shaman-

[c.ortiz108]

"Tobacco is a companion in solitude; it is a storehouse for reflection and gives time for the fumes of wrath to disperse."

-Japanese saying

[Tobias Lutz]

"If you can't send money, send tobacco."
-George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776

"Tobacco is a companion in solitude; it is a storehouse for reflection and gives time for the fumes of wrath to disperse."

-Japanese saying

Your winners!!!

@Hermit
@c.ortiz108

PM me your address and your prize boxes will be airborne on Monday morning.

Thanks everyone for playing, I've picked up some great quotes!

[BryGuySC]

"Loud pipes save lives!"


Oh, wait. Maybe this is the wrong thread.

[El Whedo]

Allah made tobacco grow to put a smile on the faces of men. ~Turkish proverb

[c.ortiz108]

"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few;
My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."

-Robert Service

[Branzig]

"For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth."

-Moby Dick

[Hermit]

"...when they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking,
they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon -- they
little knew how trivial and valueless I would regard a decade that had no smoking in it!"
Mark Twain - letter to Joseph Twichell, 19 Dec 1870