Ancient Quote by Andrew Lang

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

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

— Andrew Lang

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

— Andrew Lang

“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who…

— Andrew Lang

“So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.”

— Andrew Lang

“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature…

— Andrew Lang

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

— Andrew Lang

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They, too, shall perish…

— Andrew Lang

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed…

— Andrew Lang

“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about…

— Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

“For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!”

— Andrew Lang