A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
I could prove God statistically.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts… for support rather than illumination.
Round numbers are always false.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.