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“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.” - Jerome K. Jerome
I think is my favorite so far.
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Originally Posted by Branzig
Praise Bob.
When I would find myself caught in a traffic jam, I would curse at the situation and the idiot drivers that were causing it. Now when I find myself in a delay, I sigh and say "I wish I had packed a bigger pipe."
-- Nature 2015
"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
"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 :p
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-
"In A Personal Record, I think, Conrad told us that it was there, in lodgings, that his career as a writer began, while he was waiting for the landlady's daughter to clear away the breakfast tray. And I can understand the scene perfectly: for it is after breakfast in London lodgings, after tea and bacon and toast, to be precise, when you are lighting your pipe and warming the slack of your breeks at a miniscule warmth of coals, that one can feel most easily the flowing movement of mind that presages authorship."
--Christopher Morley, The Romany Stain
"Tobacco is a companion in solitude; it is a storehouse for reflection and gives time for the fumes of wrath to disperse."
-Japanese saying
"Loud pipes save lives!"
Oh, wait. Maybe this is the wrong thread.