W.c. Fields Whiskey Quotes

I always keep some whiskey handy in case I see a snake...which I also keep handy.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.

Drowned in a vat of whiskey... Oh Death, where is thy sting?

There is a metaphor somewhere in the story Groucho liked to tell about an encounter with one of his most illustrious peers, W. C. Fields. Fields took Groucho up to his attic, where the astonished Groucho discovered, as he later described it, “$50,000 worth of booze up there in boxes. I said ‘Bill, why do you have all that whiskey up here? Don’t you know prohibition is over?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘It may come back.’” In