[Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2023

Mon Dec 4 23:47:42 UTC 2023

Fred Shapiro wrote:
> 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."

Back in July 2021 there was a mailing list thread about the quip: "If
I owned Hell and Texas, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell".
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2021-July/160028.html

There is a Quote Investigator article available here:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/01/texas-hell/

There is also an entry on page  760 of "The New Yale Book of Quotations".

Garson

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