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Quacks Quotes

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Robin Cook
Ducks, Looks, Quacks
Robin Cook (2011). “Crisis”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Robert Breault
Ducks, Optimism, Quacks

A quick cure is a quack cure.

Margaret Thatcher
Healing, Cures, Quacks
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

Francois Fenelon
Use, Quacks, Talkers

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

Rudolf Virchow
Physicians, Quacks, Replaced

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

Josh Billings
World, Quacks, Humbug

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Isaac Barrow
Ideas, Use, Quacks
Isaac Barrow (1735). “Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines”, p.4

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Honore de Balzac
Evil, Cures, Quacks
Honore de Balzac “A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, Library of Alexandria

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

Eoin Colfer
Drs, Quacks

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.

Dick Cavett
Psychics, Laughing, Quacks
Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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

C.C. Hunter
Saint, Quacks, Walks

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