Quotes from The Cocoanuts (1929)

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Groucho Marx
Hammer: Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement.

Chico Marx
Hammer: Now here is a little peninsula and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
Chico: Why a duck?

Groucho Marx
Hammer: Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket.

Groucho Marx
Hammer: Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves? Answer me that!
Bellhops: No.
Hammer: No, of course not. But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

Groucho Marx
Hammer: Well, my mother and father talked it over and they finally moved to New York, a little house in the Bronx. And it was in that little house that Abraham Lincoln was born, much to my father's surprise. And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.

Chico Marx
Hammer: What would you like? Would you like a suite on the third floor?
Chico: No. I'll take a Pollack in the basement.

Groucho Marx
Hammer: Why, it's the most exclusive residential district in Florida. *Nobody* lives there.

Groucho Marx
Hammer: You can have any kind of a home you want. You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stucco.

Chico Marx
Chico: Right now I'd do anything for money. I'd kill somebody for money. I'd kill *you* for money.
[Harpo looks dejected]
Chico: Ha ha ha. Ah, no. You're my friend. I'd kill you for nothing.
[Harpo smiles]

Groucho Marx
Jamison: Any luck with the 4:30?
Hammer: Yeah. It didn't hit me.

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