W. C. Fields Quotes - Page 3

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• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

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  Clever, Cat, Cheesy

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.179, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.

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  Scotch, Water, Needs

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• Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

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  Funny, Marriage, Women

  "Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life".

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• The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

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  Giving, Income, Tails

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• I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

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  Reading, Comedy, Caught

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• I never voted for anybody. I always voted against.

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  Quoted in R. L. Taylor, W. C. Fields (1949)

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• I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

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  Funny, Witty, Strong

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• If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

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  Pigs, Wings, Would Be

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• A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

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  Cheating

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• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

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  Hope, Lost Everything, Comedy

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• This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.

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  Funny, Jobs, Grateful

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• I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

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  Girl, Two

  Quoted in Drat!, ed. Richard J. Anobile (1969)

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• I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

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  Funny, Marriage, Fire

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• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

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  Men, Lucky, Alive

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• Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

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  Funny, Humorous, Sleep

  "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.

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• Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.

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  Girl, Children, Twenties

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• Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

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  Money, Prosperity, Corners

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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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  Drinking, Alcohol, Done

  "The Temperance Lecture" (radio broadcast) (1938)

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• I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

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  President, My Best Friend, Thieves

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• I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.

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  Humorous, Beer, Drink

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• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

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  Nature, Night, Yards

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• My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

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  Ambition, Orange Trees, Glasses

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• I never drink water... fish f**k in it.

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  Drinking, Water, Fishes

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• Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

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  Trying, Succeed, Facts

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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

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  Trust, Water, Alcohol

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