It’s a funny old world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive.
W. C. FIELDS
W. C. FIELDS
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W. C. Fields96 quotes“It’s a funny old world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive.”
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Take me down to the bar! We’ll drink breakfast together!
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields I’m looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can’t cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields I drink with impunity, or anyone else who invites me.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields You can’t cheat an honest man.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Sex isn’t necessary. You don’t die without it, but you can die having it.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.
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