Groucho Marx Quotes

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

The grain is always greener in foreign fields, and the flocks of our neighbor have richer yields

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.