A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

There are three kinds of lies-lies, damned lies and statistics.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish-fulfilment.

I could prove God statistically.

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.