Patricia Marx famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
-- Patricia Marx

#Serious #Littles #Embarrassed
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
-- Patricia Marx

#Groups #Mammals #Males
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
-- Patricia Marx

#Unknown Person #Persons
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
-- Patricia Marx

#Chinese #Capitalism
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
-- Patricia Marx

#Practice #Surfing #Stranger
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
-- Patricia Marx

#Sometimes #Journalist
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
-- Patricia Marx

#New York #Cuisine #Culture
Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.
-- Patricia Marx

#Waiting #Nuclear #Bombs
Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommÃ©. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.
-- Patricia Marx

#Mother #Home #Rocks
Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.
-- Patricia Marx

#Christmas #People #Cards
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
-- Patricia Marx

#Giving #Shelves
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
-- Patricia Marx

#New York #Sleep #Cities
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,
-- Patricia Marx

#Pretty Woman #Comedy
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.
-- Patricia Marx

#Stupid #Coffee #Land
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
-- Patricia Marx

#Trouble #Bigs
It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.
-- Patricia Marx

#Fall #Intellectual #Gusto
I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.
-- Patricia Marx

#Blessed #Dazzle #Buoys

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