The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet, although it has not been possible to locate a matching post in the Google Groups archives. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements.
Apparently said by Oscar Levant: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin" (as quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk). I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. Lord Palmerston had similar last words in 1865: "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!". Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!. As quoted in What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results (2003) by Howard Edson, p. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. Just after completing his second autobiography, as quoted in The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography (1987) by Wes D. To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. When asked for a photograph for identification. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks. Liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972) the recording of his appearance at Carnegie Hall. My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed. Recounting a War Bonds tour in his Carnegie Hall appearance (). She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities." I didn't sell any more bonds, but eh. She was also known in St.Paul, she used to come over to visit me. Then I told the audience that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. I did a bond tour during the Second World War. Groucho's actual response during one of You Bet Your Life episodes referred to in the above quote. #Groucho marx brothers full#
I like pancakes, but I haven't got a closet full of them!.Interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972) more on this at : "I Love My Cigar".You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that. I get credit all the time for things I never said. I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said.On Woody Allen, in an interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972).Maybe twenty years ago, he might have been inspired. They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers.Quote by Leo Rosten in The Many Worlds of Leo Rosten (1964).I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929), as quoted in LIFE (9 February 1962)
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. 
may they never meet! (Variation on an old Royal Navy wardroom toast: "Wives and Sweethearts! May they never meet!" ) It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.) No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.In Part I, Chapter II, "Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera", it's said of Old Jolyon that, "He naturally despised the Club that did take him." after another refused him because he was in a trade. The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga.
As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) by Arthur Sheekman. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". Telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER". I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959). Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke.
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