Quacks Quotes

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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
So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building… — Jacqueline Novogratz
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
They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of… — H. L. Mencken
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
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is… — C.S. Lewis
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones. — Rudolf Virchow
There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine). — John Bradshaw
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
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for… — Dick Cavett
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
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light!… — John James Audubon
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks… — H. L. Mencken
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with… — Hunter S. Thompson

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