QUACKERY

Related Subjects: Deceit, Doctors, Knavery

1. Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.—CARLYLE, Heroes & Hero-Worship
   

2. One portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.—CARLYLE
   

3. Out, you imposters!
   Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
   Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.—MASSINGER, The Virgin-Martyr
   

4. Quacks—not physicians.—THOMAS MOORE, Ode to Rae Wilson
   

5. Quackery has no friend like gullibility.—Proverb
   

6. Quackery has no such friend as credulity.—C. SIMMONS
   

7. Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it is literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.—THOREAU