Tuesday, October 13, 2009

She was Good at Playing Abstract Confusion

Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe via last.fm

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. – Georges Clemenceau

Missionaries, my dear! Don’t you realize that missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals? Whenever they are on the brink of starvation, Heaven in its infinite mercy sends them a nice plump missionary. – Oscar Wilde

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – H.L. Mencken

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. – Gerald Brenan

People will swim through sh—if you put a few bob in it. – Peter Sellers

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – G.K. Chesterton

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond studded wheelchair. – Dorothy Parker

About Marilyn Monroe – “She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short.” – Clive James



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