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Groucho Marx117
American comedian 1890–1977Related quotes
“Old women can see through walls.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Las viejas vemos a través de las paredes.
Act II (l. 597)
The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
Kellyanne Conway (1967) American strategist and pollster
CNN, CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, 2/10/16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-imE2cDd0
“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”
Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”
Ernst Gombrich Art and Illusion
Quoted in: Willie Maartens (2006). Mapping Reality, p. 185.
Art and Illusion (1960)
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
21 November 1917
Variant translation: Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)