Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
A quick cure is a quack cure.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.
(about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.
When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint. " -Della
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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 a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
[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.
