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.
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.