Groucho Marx Quotes

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

If only I could change my destiny and be a man, …

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."