"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but……" — W.C. Fields
"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."
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188 Quotes by W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields has 188 quotes on this site.
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It…
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The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.
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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious…
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I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.
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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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How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon…
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Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners…
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy…
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I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and…
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Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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