Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

Life's more amusing than we thought.