Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

—Groucho Marx

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Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one of America's greatest comedians.

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

—Groucho Marx

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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

—Groucho Marx

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

—Groucho Marx

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

—Groucho Marx

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With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?

—Mitch Hedberg

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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

—Joseph Addison

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The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

—Stewart Edward White

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What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold “noble” and earth and dirt “base”? For do not these persons consider that, if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit?

—Galileo Galilei

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