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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by W. C. Fields (American Actor, Comedian)

Inspirational Quotations by W. C. Fields (American Actor, Comedian)

William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, (1880–1946) was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields’ comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs and children.

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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
—W. C. Fields

I never drink water. I’m afraid it will become habit-forming.
—W. C. Fields

Start every day with a smile, and get it over with.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Smile

My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Value

My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
—W. C. Fields

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: World

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
—W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. “I’m looking for a loop-hole,” he explained.
—W. C. Fields

Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Gambling

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.
—W. C. Fields

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Money, Poverty, Wealth

After two days in the hospital, I turn to the nurse.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Health

Don’t worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Worry

Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
—W. C. Fields

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Greatness

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
—W. C. Fields

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Worry

A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Belief

It was a woman that drove me to drink, but unfortunately I never had the chance to thank her.
—W. C. Fields

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Life and Living

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink, because when they get up in the morning, it’s as good as they’ll feel all day.
—W. C. Fields

Any man who hates children can’t be all bad.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Children

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Women

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Justice

A woman drove me to drink, and I’ll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.
—W. C. Fields

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that is the one thing I am indebted to her for.
—W. C. Fields

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
—W. C. Fields

You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
—W. C. Fields

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
—W. C. Fields

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.
—W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
—W. C. Fields

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
—W. C. Fields

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Success

It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
—W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
—W. C. Fields

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
—W. C. Fields
Topics: Confidence

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