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.

- Harpo Marx

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

- Harpo Marx

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

- Harpo Marx

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…

- Harpo Marx

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…

- Harpo Marx

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.

- Harpo Marx

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…

- Harpo Marx

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.

- Harpo Marx

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…

- Harpo Marx