Here’s a Happy Thought.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | September 1, 2009

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009

W. C. Fields may have said, “Everyone needs to believe in something and I believe I’ll have a drink,” but he didn’t say:

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Tom Waits, quoted in Creem Magazine, March 1978, did.

Thanks to the Yale Book of Quotations as featured in the Freakonomics Blog.

But was it Mark Twain who complained that Shakespeare was overrated because it was full of cliches, or does it simply sound like something he’d say?

CLT

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