No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond.… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by… — William James Copy Share Image
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image