| Author |
Quotes |
| Aaron Levenstein | I could prove God statistically. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. |
| Fletcher Knebel | Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. |
| Fletcher Knebel | Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. |
| G O Ashley | Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. |
| George Gallup | Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. |
| Jean Baudrillard | The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. |
| Joseph Stalin | A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. |
| Laurence Peter | If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. |
| Lewis Carroll | 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. |
| Mae West | A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. |
| Paul Erdos | A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. |
| Rex Stout | There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up. |
| Rita Mae Brown | 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 | One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... |
| Robert Boynton | Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. |
| Storm P | Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light. |
| Samuel Johnson | Round numbers are always false. |
| Unknown | Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. |
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