Quacks Quotes - Page 3

• Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

  Alexander Fleming

  Dark, Years, Age

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Medicine, Age

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• Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

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• 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 to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Horse, Jobs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• 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 a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Half, Unjust, Abomination

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• 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 against it.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Ducks, Rebel

  "Smooth Moves". Interview with Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

  Thomas Sowell

  Organization, People, Leader

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Science, Doctors

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• Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

  William Congreve

  Atheist, Pimp, Atheism

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8

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• Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Important

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• Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

  Josh Billings

  World, Humbug, Havens

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• Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Medicine, Doe, Clergymen

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• [Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Medicine, People, Advice

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• This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Physicians, Comfort

  War and Peace Pt 9, Ch. 16

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• Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or - in plain English - a lie.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Lying, Taken, Water

  "Leftists are immoral: Pray for them" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. December 24, 2013.

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• You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

  Leon Daudet

  Opening Up, Ducks, Hands

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• 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 one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."

  Stephen Potter

  Believe, Safety, Bird

  Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

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• 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

  Thinking, Medicine, Poison

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• So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Selfish, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.327

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• 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 trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Medicine, People, Broken

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• If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.

  Walter Reuther

  Ducks, May, Looks

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• Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

  Clarence Nash

  Chinese, Language, Portuguese

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• (about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.

  Eoin Colfer

  Drs

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• I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. "Tuck your tail in, little duck," I say, smoothing the blouse back in place. Prim giggles and give me a small "Quack." "Quack yourself," I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Light, Ducks, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della

  C.C. Hunter

  Saint, Walks

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