“Not one cent for scenery.”
Said in opposition to federal funding of conservation efforts; reported in Blair Bolles, Tyrant from Illinois (1951), p. 119.
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American politician 1836–1926Related quotes
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
“Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.”
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (March 13, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
“In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse”
As translated in Haiku : Spring (1950) by Reginald Horace Blyth
Context: In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
“Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”
The Final Touch : Portrait of nobody in particular
Grooks
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”
"The Gift of the Magi" - Full text online http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
The Four Million (1906)
