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Groucho Marx Quotes
Groucho Marx Quotes
Groucho Marx Quotes
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to
do is live long enough.
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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 sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO
BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly
everything, money is handy.
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My mother loved children \-\- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to
read.
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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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Women should be obscene and not heard.
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I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my
socks.
--, In the film A Day at the Races
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it.
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.
Groucho Marx
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions \- the curtain
was up.
Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into
the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Groucho Marx
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I
go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx
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.
Groucho Marx
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.
Groucho Marx
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx
I'm not feeling very well \- I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf
course.
Groucho Marx
I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Groucho Marx
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it
actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx
My mother loved children \- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
No man goes before his time \- unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never
know.
Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to
read.
Groucho Marx
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx
Remember, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more than
she's ever done!
Groucho Marx
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
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.
Groucho Marx
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it
made.
Groucho Marx
There's one way to find out if a man is honest \- ask him. If he says, "Yes," you
know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
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.
Groucho Marx
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at
the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to
undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Groucho Marx
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.
Groucho Marx
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than
you do!
Groucho Marx