Groucho Marx: Likeness
Groucho Marx was American comedian. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.“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
“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.
“A likely story — and probably true.”
The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke. (1949)
Telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321