Famous quotes containing the words labour and/or statistics:
“all her labour was but as a block
Left in the quarry;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)