According to the well-known historian W. Shakespeare, he said it.
Best autocorrect typo of the year.
LOL!
I’d say he was above average in some things, average in others.
I first heard the story in the last century, and thought it was a rumor.
But: Orson Welles and Robert Blake Trade Jabs With Each Other - Carson Tonight Show
W. C. Fields never said, “any man who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.” It was spoken by polymathic humorist Leo Rosten about Fields at a tribute banquet in 1939.
But… it’s possible that Rosten knew it wasn’t original since a close variant of the phrase appeared in a Harper’s magazine article in 1937. Surely Rosten, a PhD, would have been a reader of Harper’s.
Apposite to this thread (I never get to use apposite: thanks!) it’s likely, though not completely certain, that Yogi Berra really said, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” It’s also really said that Joe Garagiola made up most of Yogi’s Yogisms.