“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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“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (March 13, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
“In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
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.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
The Final Touch : Portrait of nobody in particular
Grooks
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”
O. Henry book The Four Million
"The Gift of the Magi" - Full text online http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)
