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

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

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

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

. . . 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.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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.