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
There are three kinds of lies:
lies, damned lies, and statistics.
?Benjamin Disraeli
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
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-practitioners.
?G. O. Ashley
Round numbers are always false.
?Samuel Johnson
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind
you look up, and the kind you make up.
?Rex Stout
