Quotes from Horse Feathers (1932)

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Chico Marx
Professor Wagstaff: In case I never see you again, which would add ten years to my life, what would you fellas want to play football?
Baravelli: Well, first we want a football.
Professor Wagstaff: Well, I don't know if we've got a football, but if I can find one, would you be interested? I don't want a hasty answer, just sleep on it.
Baravelli: I no think I can sleep on a football.
- Chico Marx (as Baravelli) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Jumping anaconda!
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
The Professors: But, Professor, where will the students sleep?
Professor Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom.
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Who was that?
Connie: The ice man.
Professor Wagstaff: Is that so? Well, you can't pull the wool over my ice.
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Why don't you go home to your wife? I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement she'll never know the difference.
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Why, I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse!
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: You know you've got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: You know, this is the first time I've been out in a canoe since I saw "The American Tragedy."
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: You're heading for a breakdown, why don't you pull yourself to pieces?
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

Groucho Marx
Professor Wagstaff: Young man, you'll find as you get older, you can't burn the candle at both ends.
[Harpo pulls out a candle burning at both ends]
Professor Wagstaff: Well, I knew you couldn't burn something at both ends. I thought it was a candle.
- Groucho Marx (as Professor Wagstaff) in Horse Feathers (1932)

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