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What does it mean?
Wishes for wives and girlfriends to never meet to avoid conflict.
In plain terms
May your different partners never meet.
What can you take from it?
Different relationships can clash if combined.

Where it applies

  • weddings
  • toasts
  • relationship advice

Putting it to work

  • warn about relationships
  • make toasts funny
  • avoid relationship drama

Questions to consider

  • Why do relationships clash?
  • Is this joke too dark?

Another view

It suggests infidelity or separation as a joke.

More from Groucho Marx

  1. No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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  2. From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

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  3. [Variant:] 'Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member'.

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