Groucho Marx Berühmte Zitate

„Ich mag keinem Club angehören, der mich als Mitglied aufnimmt.“
Groucho-Marx-Paradoxon; Telegramm an den Friars Club, in dem er seinen Austritt mitteilt.
Original engl.: "I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member." - Arthur Sheekman, The Groucho Letters. New York Simon & Schuster 1967. Introduction. S. 8. Ähnlich in: Groucho Marx. Groucho and Mr. New York. New York Bernard Geis 1959. S. 321 und Arthur Marx. Life with Groucho. New York Simon & Schuster 1954. S. 45; vgl. Richard Raskin. Life is like a Glass of Tea. Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes. Philadelphia The Jewish Publication Society 1992. S. 124 ff.
Groucho Marx Zitate und Sprüche
Groucho Marx: Zitate auf Englisch
“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
From his book Groucho and Me. 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.)
“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”
Last words[citation needed]
Lord Palmerston had similar last words in 1865: "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!"[citation needed]
Quelle: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)”
Quelle: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover