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Groucho Marx war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Entertainer, der als einer der Marx Brothers zu den erfolgreichsten Komikern der englischsprachigen Welt gehörte.

✵ 2. Oktober 1890 – 19. August 1977   •   Andere Namen Julius Henry Marx
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Groucho Marx zitat: „Militärische Intelligenz ist ein Widerspruch in sich.“

„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.

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/category/jim-brewer/ mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer.
Misattributed
Variante: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Quelle: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.”

As quoted in What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results (2003) by Howard Edson, p. 184
Quelle: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”

Quelle: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

No known citation to Marx. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&as_brr=0&q=%22fruit-flies%22+%22time+flies%22+banana&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1900&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1970. The Yale Book of Quotations dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet.
Misattributed

“I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.”

Variante: I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

“My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.”

Liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972) the recording of his appearance at Carnegie Hall.

“I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”

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).
Misattributed

“A likely story — and probably true.”

The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke. (1949)

“Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”

From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959)
Variante: Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

“They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers. He got nothing. Maybe twenty years ago, he might have been inspired. Today he's an original. The best, the funniest.”

On Woody Allen, in an interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972) http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720307/PEOPLE/41116001

“To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.”

Just after completing his second autobiography, as quoted in The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography (1987) by Wes D. Gehring, p. 137

“I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. 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.
Interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972); more on this at Snopes.com: "I Love My Cigar" http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp

“I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE 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. 321

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