Groucho Marx Quotes

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

The honester the man, the worse luck.