Pipe Quotation Contest

[Tobias Lutz]

I was reorganizing my study and realized I have a few more tins open than I can reasonably keep up with right now, so...I figured I'd give some away

The contest is simple...post a quote about pipe smoking. For example, I wood-burned this one into my pipe rack: "A pipe is the fountain of contemplation."


I'll pick a winner and ship next weekend. You can enter one time, per day, so everyone has the chance to post 7 quotations before the cut-off next Saturday @ noon EST (4-25)

If you don't need more tobacco...enter anyway and I'll bomb whomever you choose if you are selected the winner!

Good luck

note: I don't really care who said it, so while you're free to attribute the quote to someone, quotes without attribution will not be docked during judging.

[Hermit]

"Every morning I wake up and think, good, another 24 hours' pipe-smoking."
JRR Tolkien

[cpmcdill]

"The further consequence I admit, was that I ruined my health, got heart disease, and am now an old woman. Probably you think that I'm much older than Hans, but the fact is that he's only two or three years younger than me and will never grow any older either, for at his work -- smoking his pipe, listening to the customers, knocking out his pipe again, and fetching an occasional pot of beer -- at that sort of work one doesn't grow old."
~Franz Kafka - The Castle

[Branzig]

I've always been fond of:

“Well, it keeps my hands busy, and my mouth shut.”

[cpmcdill]

"A man will give you a cigarette, offer you a cigar, but he never shares his pipe."

[BryGuySC]

A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
- C.S. Lewis

[Lostmason]

That's the way it is,so put that in your pipe and smoke it !

[Hermit]

"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs."
-Albert Einstein

[El Whedo]

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb

[c.ortiz108]

“A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.” - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (who is also the guy responsible for the opening, "It was a dark and stormy night....")

Nice contest - thanks, Tobias!