Groucho Marx Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Groucho Marx:
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
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I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
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It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
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Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
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I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
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There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Humor is reason gone mad.
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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
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Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
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All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
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If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
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My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
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A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
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I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
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Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
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Women should be obscene and not heard.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
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I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
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No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
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Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
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Room service? Send up a larger room.
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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
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Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
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I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
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I intend to live forever, or die trying.
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Go, and never darken my towels again.
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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Before I speak, I have something important to say.
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If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
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I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
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I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
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