Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics/Quotes

""Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 'Forfty' percent of all people know that.""

- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons - "Homer the Vigilante"

""The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic.""

- Not Joseph Stalin

""Ever since the formation of the Justice League, half of all marriages have ended in divorce! And the other half in DEATH!!""

- Glorious Godfrey lookalike, Justice League

"75% percent of people will believe anything that has a statistic in it."

"Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures."

- George Canning

"Because this is a meteorological fact I can prove with graphs and lying. It snows EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY. Oh, shut up, what do you know??"

- Steven Moffat on the rules of Christmas Movies, Radio Times issue 18-31 December 2010