Harpo Marx Quotes

#1. Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

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#2. In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

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

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

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#12. I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

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

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#14. My name is whaddya care
My home is anywhere
People say I'm awful dumb
So I thought to you I'd come

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