Literary statements that are false as mathematics [closed]

A great example of this:

"Sir, in your otherwise beautiful poem (The Vision of Sin) there is a verse which reads 'Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born.' Obviously this cannot be true and I suggest that in the next edition you have it read 'Every moment dies a man, every moment one-and-one-sixteenth is born.' Even this value is slightly in error but should be sufficiently accurate for the purposes of poetry."

     - Charles Babbage, in a letter to Lord Tennyson

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered

Both the children of Israel and the sand of the sea are, of course, finite sets. As a fine grain of sand has a mass of approximately $3.5 \times 10^{-10}$ kg according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28mass%29 , it only takes about 2.5 kg of sand grains to outnumber all the people currently alive on Earth. Even for coarse sand, a truckload should suffice.