Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx was born on this date in 1890.
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”
“I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“Room service? Send up a larger room.”
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them — well, I have others.”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
I am a very big fan of the Marx Brothers. As some of you may know I’ve always been a big fan of movies, especially the classics. When I was in high school The Temple of Music and Art, that fantastic old theater in town, used to show the classics all the time. I would go there, by myself, and just get immersed in the glory of it. The theater was so magnificent and the movies were wonderful. Anyway, that is where I fell in the with the Marx Brothers.
Groucho to Chico referring to Harpo: You love your brother don’t you?
Chicho’s reply: No, but I’m used to ’em.
Ah, the classics.
Pharmacist: “Walk this way.”
Groucho: “If I could walk that way I wouldn’t need the talcum powder.”