last in his West Point class

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
- Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885]

routine

"I drink 5 martinis, smoke 20 cigars daily."
- George Burns [1896-1996]
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skull jockey

"It's profound to be understood."

piousness is boring

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
- Mark Twain

Cuban

"Life is unfair."
- JFK

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

- John F. Kennedy

Mark Twain smoked 40 cigars per day, and lived to be 74.

daily diet

32 shots of whiskey plus champagne and 20 cigars

The Churchill Archives available here:

Nearly a million documents that make up Winston Churchill's archive, ranging from school reports, drafts of his famous wartime speeches, to cigar bills, have been made instantly accessible to students, historians, and even politicians looking for lessons from past coalition governments.

"If all the theatres in the world closed tomorrow, not only would nobody care but nobody would notice."
- Orson Welles

"If you ever want to run for the Presidency of the United States, you have to be prepared to strip naked and take a bath at high-noon in the busiest intersection of your town."
- Attributed to Fred Dutton, JFK Advisor

diet

"Cigars, scotch whisky, cognac, champagne from 7am to 3am." One of his valets, Roy Howells, wrote in his book, Simply Churchill, "It took me a little while to get used to the fact that in two days his cigar consumption was the equivalent of my weekly salary." Source here.

An an earlier cigar reference here. An earlier Churchill reference here.

Bancarotta

"MY family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral."

Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885], Civil War Union Commanding General and 18th President of the United States, became a partner in a dubious New York financial firm that went bankrupt. Dying from throat cancer from excessive cigar smoking, Grant wrote a memoir to resolve his debts. It is regarded as the finest work of 19th Century American non-fiction; Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered the greatest work of 19th Century American fiction.

An earlier cigar reference here.

Petit Upmann

JFK's preferred Cuban cigar here.