Guide Rods

Famous quotes containing the words guide and/or rods:

    They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey
    Yet never partake of the treat—
    Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
    Pale ravener of horrible meat.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)