My favorite:
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
Some others I like:
"I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be."
--Richard Carleton
"My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you."
-- Sigmund Freud - to his young nephew, Harry, after he declined a cigar
"They had no good cigars there, my lord; and I left the place in disgust."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, returning from Venice"
"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar."
-- Mark Twain
"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
-- Mark Twain
"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
--George Burns
"After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings."
-- Brad Shaw, Radio Announcer
And my chauvinistic favorites (apologies to the finer sex):
"There's peace in Larranaga, there's calm in Henry Clay, And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
-- Rudyard Kipling
"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
--Groucho Marx parodying Kipling
"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture."
-- Samuel Fuller, Movie Director parodying Kipling