W. C. Fields Quotes

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W. C. Fields

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• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I think beauty can be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Everywhere

• I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Always
  • Travel
  • Coffee

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• We can only learn to love by loving.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Responsible
  • Genes

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Eyes
  • Leadership
  • Obstacles

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Life
  • Pro-Choice
  • Legislatively

• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Purpose

• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Friends
  • Charity

• I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Good
  • Space

• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Remember
  • Future
  • Friend