Title: Humor: Quotes For Those Using Statistical Methods (and Related Topics)

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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde

"First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure." -- Mark Twain

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up." -- Rex Stout

"Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches." -- W. I. E. Gates

For a lengthy list of quotes on numerical issues, see: Quotes and Quips located at: <http://www.keypress.com/fathom/fathom1/quotes.html>. The sources for the quotes at this site are: Jerry Murdock, Gretchen Davis, Joachim Verhagen, "Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations," and Peter Langston's humor list.