“ Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. ”
- Edward Moore- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ”
- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book- Copy
- 288
“ Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row. ”
- Florence E. King- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 2K
“ Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. ”
- Saul Landau- Copy
- 1.6K
“ In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers anybody else to rail at me. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are. ”
- Troy Perry- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. ”
- Al Michaels- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off… ”
- George Martin- Copy
- 386
“ As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like. ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats. ”
- Oliver Evans- Copy
- 2.6K
“ This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. ”
- Joe Biden- Copy
- 3.4K
“ So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage? ”
- R. Waters- Copy
- 208
“ If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will — the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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