Yannis Stavrou: Painting & Books...

Summer 2009

50 new bookmarks from the artworks of Yannis Stavrou have just been circulated...

at POLITEIA Bookstores, 1 Asklipiou Street, Athens, Greece

A farewell to smoking...

Yannis Stavrou, Change of Night Patrol, oil on canvas

July 30, the last day of smoking in Greece...
A farewell to the companion of our thoughts, imagination, melancholy - in nice & bad days...

Some quotes about smoking:

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there’s only wind and smoke in the world.

Irish Proverb

Tobacco, divine, rare super excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher’s stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

Somerset Maugham

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I' m sleeping.

Mark Twain