“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”
The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
Variant: And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
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Rudyard Kipling 200
English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936Related quotes

“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”
Source: 11/22/63

“Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.”
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My Mother Smokes Crack Rocks
Lyrics, Solo
Variant: "I smoke my crack pipe everyday / I have a good time at it / I jack my mother for dope money / I do it by threatening her life with a semi-automatic" - I Smoke Weed

“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”
Disputed
Source: This occurs in the film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), based upon the novel by Kazantzakis, but has not been located in the novel itself.

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love