Groucho Marx on quotations

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

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849