Ancient Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image “In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient times Fall Statistics Time
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them. — Frederick Mosteller Copy Share Image
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. — George W. Buck Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“But that line had been obtained by the use of statistics, and as everyone knows there are three kinds of lies – lies, damned… — Vladimir Rubtsov Copy Share Image
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.” — Andrejs Dunkels Copy Share Image
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively. — Avinash Kaushik Copy Share Image
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
