Groucho Marx citations

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“Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.”

“We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.”

“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.”

“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”

“I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.”

“Was that you or the duck?”

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

“Hello, I must be going.”

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”

“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.”

“If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you!”

“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”

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

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

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

“Any place I hang my head is home.”

“All geniuses die young.”

“I'll teach you to kick me…'
You don't need to teach me--I already know how!”

“And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!”

“Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay,
I came to say, I must be going.
I’m glad I came, but just the same,
I must be going.”

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

“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)”

“You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.”

“Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar"
Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change."
Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.”

“Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.”

“The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract-- Look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this? We'll take it right out, eh?”

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”

“Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!”