Closely Observed Trains

Famous quotes containing the words closely, observed and/or trains:

    “But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed,
    That I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    “When some one remarked that, with the addition of a chaplain, it would have been a perfect Cromwellian troop, he observed that he would have been glad to add a chaplain to the list, if he could have found one who could fill that office worthily. It is easy enough to find one for the United States Army. I believe that he had prayers in his camp morning and evening, nevertheless.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Conventions, at the present moment, are really menaced. The most striking sign of this is that people are now making unconventionality a social virtue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switches have been opened, and the laden trains must take their chance of a destination.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)