Author: Groucho Marx Page 8

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Here's to our wives and girlfriends… may they never meet!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I’ll see you at the opera tonight. I’ll hold your seat till you get there. After you get there you’re on your own.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago…I shot my broker.

(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

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Why was I with her? … she reminds me of you… in fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face; that's the price she has to pay.

(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

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you… he really is an idiot.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Yes, darling, let me cover your face with kisses, on second thought, just let me cover your face.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed, but we're going back again in a couple of weeks.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A child of five would understand this; send someone to fetch a child of five.

(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

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I hope they bury me near a straight man.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Man does not control his own fate; the women in his life do that for him.

(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

I’m gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there’ll be no cover charge.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host