Rupert Hughes Quote

You can prove anything by statistics, if you can only choose your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles. Sometimes if you hitch yourself up with a statistic, you meet the fate of the farmer who put his fool head in the yoke with a skittish steer.


The Love Affairs of Great Musicians (Volume 2), Chapter VII (p. 257)


You can prove anything by statistics, if you can only choose your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles....

You can prove anything by statistics, if you can only choose your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles....

You can prove anything by statistics, if you can only choose your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles....

You can prove anything by statistics, if you can only choose your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles....