Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Langwas a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1844
drunken man rather statistics support uses
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.
drunken man rather statistics support uses
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
drunken man uses
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
blue joy ancient
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.
cat animal wheels
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
illumination drunk support
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
cat umpires balls
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.
research tradition enough
Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
flower book garden
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
thinking ideas culture
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
dream men laughing
Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
funny-life amusing
Life's more amusing than we thought.
cat animal contemplative-life
Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
sea fishing rivers
. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.