1.6.09

More Groucho

Could not help it.
Just too many good things from Groucho's mouth
to fit in one post.
So here's some more.
But not all.


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

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants
to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
Groucho Marx

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx

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

My favourite poem is the one that starts
'Thirty days hath September' because it
actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

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

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
Groucho Marx

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

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

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx

Room service? Send up a larger room.
Groucho Marx

She got her looks from her father.
He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx Quotes

From his movies, books or interviews, Groucho Marx was
the most quotable comedian around..... until some others came around.
Many of these are his best and, of course, you've heard them before.
Enjoy them still.


I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx

I must say I find television very educational.
The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library
and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to
make an exception.
Groucho Marx

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.
Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall
be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or
unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London
when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately.
Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx

I've got the brain of a four year old.
I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.
But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
Groucho Marx

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me,
because I'd like to hear it again.
Groucho Marx

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

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City
in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx

Wisdom Quotes

There are loads of lame quotes out there on the subject of wisdom,
a rather lame subject itself quite frankly, but people like to think
they are up on things if they have a line or two with which to
pepper their tavern talk.
So here's some of the best of the worst of wisdom quotes.
Enjoy or despair at the ponderous profundities.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he
bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable
heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection,
which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the
world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven
which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes
every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the
direction of wisdom.
James Huneker

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study
may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson

Little Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou
hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can
be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing
if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere,
wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

Age Quotes

There is no shortage of whoppers on the subject of age.
The list goes on forever, from every conceivable nook in
the subterranean mythos of gobbledegook.
These should inspire a moderate notion of lassitude.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.
Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of
decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd
than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer
we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment
of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Age is not a particularly interesting subject.
Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have.
The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

Economists report that a college education adds many
thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -
which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age.
You're young enough to get away with things,
but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon.
That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps
him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking

I think your whole life shows in your face and you
should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always
15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone
has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties
run into us.
Beverly Sills

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar
haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Life is a moderately good play with a badly
written third act.
Truman Capote

Like everyone else who makes the mistake
of getting older, I begin each day with coffee
and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich

Life Quotes

As you may or may not have realized, quotes about life
can be enormously suffocating, but some people feel compelled
to state them and others compelled to re-state them.
If you read a hundred life quotes, one or two may resonate
with you.

Maybe that one or two is listed here.


A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments
you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting
go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears
you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help
create the fact.
William James

But now I have come to believe that the whole world
is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve
inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very
effective therapist.
Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck
with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on
Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to
improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts
I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the
books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just
hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the
right regrets.
Arthur Miller

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself
to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of
your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea
that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

The basic fact about human existence is not that
it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much
a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

The great use of life is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.
William James

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney

The price of anything is the amount of life you
exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

There is only one difference between a long life
and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for
anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

Wars and elections are both too big and too small
to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes
on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit
of talent left, and could say,
"I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries
disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl
across open country under fire, and drop into
your grave.
Quentin Crisp

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

Einstein Quotes

Some may say that Einstein is overquoted and I would agree.
Perusing the large library of quotes from the man produces
a sort of fuzzy decoherence similar to reading up on the
mathematics of relativity.
So, minus the chaff and the incomphrehensible, these are
the select from the famous man.

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology
has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics,
I assure you that mine are greater.
Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties.
He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation.
I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I
may try to express it in words afterward.”
Albert Einstein

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between past, present, and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking
that created it.
Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity,
I do not understand it myself anymore.
Albert Einstein

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the
individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
Albert Einstein

We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the
cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert Einstein

It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by
the idea of service.
Albert Einstein