Occupation: Comedian Birth: November 23, 1888 Death: September 28, 1964
Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you….
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….
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 thi….
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told..
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and insi….
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..
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household..
I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived..
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade..
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..
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..