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“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”

Groucho Marx

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]
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”

Groucho Marx

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.)

“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”

Groucho Marx

When asked for a photograph for identification
The Groucho Phile (1976)

“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”

Groucho Marx

As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) by Arthur Sheekman. The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga. In Part I, Chapter II, &quot;Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera&quot; http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2559, it&#x27;s said of Old Jolyon that, &quot;He naturally despised the Club that did take him.&quot; after another refused him because he was in a trade. <br class="br">Variant: I sent the club a wire stating: «Please accept my resignation. I don&#x27;t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member». <br class="br">Source: Groucho and Me