The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine). — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. — Mehmet Oz 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
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
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
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,… — Samuel Hopkins Adams 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
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
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
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
“What animals make the best doctors? A. Ducks, they’re natural quacks.” — R. Eugene Pearson 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
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck. — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
