Wooden Rails

Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or rails:

    Whither went the lovely hoyden?
    Disappeared in blessed wife;
    Servant to a wooden cradle,
    Living in a baby’s life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The train’s gone, the rails are cold.
    Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)