Quack Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel… — Sara Blakely
Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never… — Ian Shoales
In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an… — Thomas Sowell
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine… — John Dewey
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies — Francois Fenelon
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage. — Eliphas Levi
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked… — Walter Scott
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some… — John Mortimer
You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it… — Leon Daudet
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy… — Stephen Potter
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These Quack Quotes

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