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

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
   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.

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

Strong is the lionölike a coal His eye-ballölike 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.

-Smart, Christopher
  A Song to David, stanza 76.

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

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