Groucho Marx Quotes

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

I'm gonna live till I die.

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

I don't intend to die.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.

You can't count me out.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.