These are some of my favorite quotes from figures in the past regarding the smoking of the pipe. Feel free to add others...
“A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake–you are undoubtedly a man.”
-A. A. Milne
"On land, on sea, at home abroad
I smoke my pipe and worship God."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth." - C.S. Lewis
“A pipe is to the troubled soul what caresses of a mother are for her suffering child.”
-Indian Proverb
“Nowhere in the world will such a brotherly feeling of confidence be experienced as amongst those who sit together smoking their pipes.”
- The Results and Merits of Tobacco, 1844, Doctor Barnstein
“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, 1st Baron Lytton
“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”
-Albert Einstein, 1950
