Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho MarxRead
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Interpretation
Television often distracts from meaningful learning, prompting one to choose reading instead.
In this quote, Groucho Marx humorously suggests that television is full of uneducating content. He implies that instead of consuming frivolous programming, he prefers to engage with books, which offer true knowledge and education, highlighting the importance of choosing valuable sources of learning over mindless entertainment.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of reading in a digital age.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight.
Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.
Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.
Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."
The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
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