Author: Groucho Marx Page 6

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(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

Go, and never darken my towels again.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

You’re just wasting your breath, and that’s no great loss either.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

You’ve got the brain of a four year old boy… and I’ll bet he was glad to get rid of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can’t see the stove.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Room service? … send up a larger room.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put ‘Emily, I love you’ on the back of the bill.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men; the other 999 follow women.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter; some day I intend reading it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I wanted to get a writ of habeas corpus, but I should have gotten a-rid of you instead.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

With a little study you’ll go a long ways… and I wish you’d start now.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I intend to live forever… or die trying.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

You can leave in a taxi… If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff… if that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Now there's a man with an open mind – you can feel the breeze from here!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host