Bad habit Quote by Fred Schwed Jr

Figures never lie, but liars often figure

— Samuel Butler

“figures don't lie, liars figure”

— B Rossini

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

— Mark Twain

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

“Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ”

— Evan Esar

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply…

— Mark Twain

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“They say numbers are just ordinary figures. It is, but not so when it gets to the point where they begin to synchronize and…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We have facts,’ they say. But facts are not everything—at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Money talks, but it rarely speaks the truth.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An…

— Josephine Tey

“They say statistics by their nature don’t lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.”

— Craig Johnson