People/Groucho Marx/Quote
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
To S. J. Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929), as quoted in LIFE (9 February 1962)
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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