Just a cigar

Hi Pleas let me know what is the meaning of the phrase "Wedding card is a wedding card"

Or the meaning of a phrase "Cigar is just a cigar". This quoted in New York times.

Thank you

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" is attributed to Sigmund Freud. But there is no evidence that he actually said it. It means that sometimes a cigar is what it is and not a phallic symbol -- an elongated object representing a penis. "This line is beloved by showboat psychology professors who imitate Groucho Marx while telling students that Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." From "Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations" by Ralph Keyes (HarperPerennial, 1993).

(They probably imitate Groucho because he was another cigar smoker. The cigar story associated with him is that a woman explained her many children by saying, "I love my husband." And Groucho responded, "I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while." But I don't think Groucho actually said that.)

So, sometimes a wedding card is just a card. And not representative of something else.

Victor Herbert, or his librettist, said (in one of Herbert's operettas), "A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." (I'm just the messenger.) SS

So, did Victor Herbert get "A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." from Kipling or did Kipling get it from Herbert?

Monica Lewinsky would have said 'do you want the before cigar or the after cigar?'

From Kipling, of course. Got me there! SS