
“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
This was an epitaph Fields proposed for himself in a 1925 article in Vanity Fair. It refers to his long standing jokes about Philadelphia (his actual birthplace), and the grave being one place he might actually not prefer to be. This is often repeated as "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.", or "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." which he might have stated at other times. It has also sometimes been distorted into a final dig at Philadelphia: "Better here than in Philadelphia." Fields' actual tomb at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California simply reads "W. C. Fields 1880–1946".
“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/picture-perfect-1997 of Picture Perfect (1 August 1997)
Reviews, Two star reviews
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
“I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”
Source: Shadowfever
“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”
Philadelphia Freedom (1975)
Song lyrics, Singles
Source: "Does the history of psychology have a future?." 1994, p. 471