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• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
  The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
• Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts for support rather than illumination.
• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
  -- Andrew Lang...
• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts.
  ..for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang (1844-1912)...
• Hic! I'm sober as a jug. -- Famous Last Word
• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...