Quote #45

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

More from W. C. Fields

  1. Man: 'I have no sympathy for a man who is intoxicated all the time.' WC: 'A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.'
  2. My father...one of the great immorals, er, immortals, of our time.
  3. Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child- if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
  4. My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies
  5. Last week I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
  6. Never mind what I told you - do what I I tell you.
  7. From It's a Gift, chiding a man who is trying to swindle him out of valuable property: 'You're crazy. And I'm drunk. But I'll be sober tomo…
  8. Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

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