Author: Groucho Marx Page 5

Money frees you from doing things you dislike; since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Ambassador Trentino: I didn’t come here to be insulted!

Rufus T. Firefly: That’s what you think!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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 or tail of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? … How much?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I’ve got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I chased a woman for almost two years only to discover her tastes were exactly like mine – we were both crazy about girls.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host