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«Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.»
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable | Keywords: obsolete, railroad, railroads, railroad station, station, up-to-date
«RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: devices, enabling, expedition, expeditions, get away, hold off, permits, railroad, railroads, transit
«A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Words | Keywords: inch, in trouble, railroad, railroads, railroad track, rolled into one, rolling, smooth, switch on, track, wreck
«A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: railroad, railroads
«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: amuse, battered, coppers, freight, freighted, freight train, Puns, railroad, railroads, railroad track, tracks, upset, wanton, wantons, witticism, witticisms
«There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: coat, digger, get off the ground, grind, railroad, railroads, take off
«A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt (President) | About: Education | Keywords: freight, freighted, freight car, railroad, railroads, railroad car, steal, university
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