W. C. Fields Quotes
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.