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

—Groucho Marx

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About 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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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

—Groucho Marx

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

—Groucho Marx

Go, and never darken my towels again.

—Groucho Marx

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

—Groucho Marx

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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.

His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!

—William Shakespeare

He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.

—William Shakespeare

Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.

—William Shakespeare