Andrew Lang Quotes

• Un pronosticador poco sofisticado utiliza las estadísticas como un borracho las farolas: para apoyarse más que para iluminarse.

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  Divertido, Humor, Hombres

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

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  Cat, Animal, Wheels

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

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  Beautiful, Memorable, Fairy

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• You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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  Country, Book, Beer

  Andrew Lang (2013). “Delphi Works of Andrew Lang (Illustrated)”, p.8596, Delphi Classics

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• 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 in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

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  Summer, Weed, Beach

  Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

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• Yo soy el bateador y el bate, / Yo soy el lanzador y la bola, / El árbitro, el gato del pabellón, / El rodillo, el terreno de juego y los tocones, y todo.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Umpires, Bats

  'Brahma'.

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

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  Flower, Book, Garden

  Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

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• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

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  Opportunity, Tongue, Public Speaking

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• Life's more amusing than we thought.

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  Funny Life, Amusing

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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

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  Iluminación, Borrachera, Apoyo

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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• A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

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  Book, Years, Faces

  Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Blue, Joy, Ancient

  Andrew Lang (2015). “Ballads in Blue China”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

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  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Andrew Lang (2012). “Adventures Among Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

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  Fear, Remember, Danger

  "The Complete Coloured Fairy Books".

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• Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

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  Believe, People, Greek

  Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic

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• 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.

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  Research, Tradition, Enough

  Andrew Lang (2012). “The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O un hombre sabio no entra en los búnkeres, o, estando dentro, soportará con paciencia las cosas que le sucedan.

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  Wise, Men, Bunkers

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

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• Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

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  Cat, Animal, Contemplative Life

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• . . . 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.

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  Mar, Pesca, Ríos

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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