28 Aug
2014
28 Aug
'14
10:50 a.m.
Yeah. I've seen "There's lies, damn lies, and statistics" attributed to Disraeli, but some think it's Tvainian. --Dan On Aug 28, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have said "Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."
(Though one should be suspicious of such attributions: it's a relIable principle that if an adage sounds remotely Shavian, then regardless of who actually came up with it, sooner or later somebody will attribute it to Shaw.)