The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Smile, it’s the second best thing youcan do with your lips.

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.