W. C. Fields Quotes

I drink to forget I drink.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.