[Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2023

[Shapiro, Fred]

The Crockett quote reminds me of Civil War general Philip Henry Sheridan's quote:"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."

Sheridan's most famous putative quote is the sinister "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," but, according to the New Yale Book of Quotations, the attribution to Sheridan is clearly erroneous.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Fw: Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2023

>  "Why would I want to stay here? To hell with this place."
>   --George Santos after being expelled from the House, Dec. 1

Better said by Davy Crockett, 187 years ago:

"You can go to hell, and I will go to Texas."

(of course, that whole Texas thing didn't really work out for him . . . .)



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