chest quotes

I want†the $60 GI job and no medals on my chest.

- Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
   To President Truman, 25 Nov. Quoted in Michael R Beschloss Eisenhower (1990).

Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, byonemeans oranother, triestoopenit. the chest is opened: inside, there is nothing.

-Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake Mishima
Acts ofWorship,'Cigarette' (translated byJohn Bester,1989).

Strong is the lionlike a coal His eye-balllike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide, th'enormous whale Emerges as he goes.

- Christopher Smart
  A Song to David, stanza 76.

   Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Treasure Island, ch.1,'The Old Sea-Dog at the'Admiral Benbow'.'