“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 Kipling200
English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936Related quotes
“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”
Stephen King book 11/22/63
Source: 11/22/63
“Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.”
Don Johnson (1949) American actor and singer
Cigar Aficionado: Life After Miami Vice http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,182,00.html
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
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.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ
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.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People
page 79
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman
