Kinky Friedman Quotes

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.

I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

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

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

… Smoking sets a bad example.

I'm a cigar aficionado.

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.