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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.
Paul Erdos
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence Peter
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.
Author Unknown
I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup
USA Today has come out with a new survey -
David Letterman
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
Rita Mae Brown
I could prove God statistically.
Aaron Levenstein
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
Storm P
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-
G. O. Ashley
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Robert Boynton
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
George Gallup
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-
G. O. Ashley