If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDSTry till you succeed, if you don’t succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
More W. C. Fields Quotes
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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler.
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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 have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
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I don’t drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.
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You can fool some of the people some of the time and that’s enough to make a decent living.
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I don’t believe in dining on an empty stomach.
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