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Letter "L" » lampposts
«He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination»
«Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs»
«ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
lamppost, lampposts, rioter, rioters
«He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
dissimulate, drunkard, instability, lamppost, lampposts
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