Ends Quote by Louis Menand

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

— Horace Greeley

“And the smoke rose slowly, slowly, Through the tranquil air of morning, First a single line of darkness, Then a denser, bluer vapor, Then…

— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLongfellow

“Smoke fills the room, gray and sylphlike, lovely in its deadly grace. It trails into the fire and forms what appear to be wings—black…

— A.G. Howard

“A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder.…

— Laura Lam

“Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.”

— Susan Ee

“5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Superficially, the figure in the smoking-room was that of a long, weedy young man - hairless as to his face; scalped with a fine…

— Bernard Capes

“Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

— Stephen King

“About nine seconds later, a blond stewardess rushed over to our row and said, “Sir, you can’t smoke on this plane. Or any plane.”…

— John Green

“He wasn’t sure if the smoke was necessary to carry their prayers up to Heaven, but it sure did rouse the spirit.”

— C.A. Tedeschi

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only…

— Vincent van Gogh