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Groucho Marx Quotes

Comedian
Born On
1890-10-02
Died On
1977-08-19
Birth Place
New York City, New York, United States
Death Place
Los Angeles, California, U.S
Birth Sign
libra
Father
Simon
Mother
Miene
Spouse
Eden Hartford, Kay Marvis, Ruth Johnson
Nationality
American

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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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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I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

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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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A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

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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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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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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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Humor is reason gone mad.

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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 hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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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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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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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

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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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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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I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead 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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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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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

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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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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

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I intend to live forever, or die trying.

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I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

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No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

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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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I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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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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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

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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 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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If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

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Women should be obscene and not heard.

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Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

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Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

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Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

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Go, and never darken my towels again.

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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Room service? Send up a larger room.

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It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

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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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Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

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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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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

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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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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

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