W. C. Fields


     A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

     Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids Can't be All Bad.

[From "The Further Adventures of Larson E. Whipsnade and other Tarradiddles"]
Don:        I didn't know you had a cousin Penelope, Bill! Was she pretty?
W.C.:    Well, her face was so wrinkled it looked like seven miles of bad road. She had so many gold teeth, Don, she use to have to sleep with her head in a safe. She died in Bolivia.
Don:        Oh Bill, it must be hard to lose a relative.
W.C.:    It's almost impossible.

     "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!"

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

     I don't drink water, fish fuck in it.

     If you're a real good kid, I'll give you a piggy-back ride on a buzz-saw.

     Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

[From "My Little Chickadee"] Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.

     The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.