49 Quotes by Andrew Lang

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.