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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
View quotes by Andrew Lang
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
View quotes by Ken Livingstone
At Jinja there is both hotel and golf course. The latter is, I believe, the only course in the world which posts a special rule that the player may remove his ball from hippopotamus footprints.
View quotes by Evelyn Waugh
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
View quotes by John Constable
'To keep a lamp burning we have to put oil in it.'
View quotes by Mother Teresa
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
View quotes by Philip Gibbs
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
View quotes by George MacDonald
Courage is adversity's lamp.
View quotes by Luc De Vauvanargues
Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.
View quotes by Reginald Heber
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
View quotes by Robert G Ingersoll
I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.
View quotes by Laurence Sterne
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
View quotes by L E Landon
The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting day
View quotes by William Falconer
Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination.
View quotes by Vince Scully
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's... the musical channel phenomenon has been exported successfully all over the world.
View quotes by Doug Ferrari
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
View quotes by Rebecca West
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
View quotes by Hannah More
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
View quotes by Hannah More
She adds the diplomacy of Alf Garnett to the economics of Arthur Daley.
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp. [describing Maggie Thatcher]
View quotes by Dennis Healey
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