Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
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JOHN KEATS Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick...
PHILIP MASSINGER Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
Tincture ...
GEORGE CRABBE From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains,
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
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GEORGE CRABBE Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
JAMIE WHYTE Friends are flowers in the garden of life
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FIROOZEH DUMAS A favorite has no friend!
THOMAS GRAY Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G.K. CHESTERTON As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB Hold a true friend with both hands
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ELIZABETH I God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
SHEILAH GRAHAM There is no friend like a sister.
DEBASISH MRIDHA For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
RICHARD COBDEN Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.
DAVID WONG For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
RICHARD CLOPTON No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends
CZECH PROVERB W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Fire knows no friend, and has no enemy. It will always do its job
SOTONYE ANGA Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN i just know no one is a friend like writing .
LITYMUNSHI When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet
THE TALMUD Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore.
- Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...
C.S. LEWIS Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) En ting er fagkyndig analyse, en annen ting kvaksalveranalyse og onaniterapi.
HARALD SCHJELDERUP The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
KHALED HOSSEINI Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
E.B. WHITE I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.
H.L. MENCKEN It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.
HUGH HOWEY I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things ten...
ROBERT PENN WARREN The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.
ANGELICA HOPES Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."
Quoting his tea...
RICHARD WAGAMESE No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has fe...
PENELOPE MITCHELL A disloyal friend is no friend.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Like my dear old friend Marie Dressler, my ugly mug has been my fortune.
WALLACE BEERY Every man's friend is no man's friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense s...
DAVID L. KATZ You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of...
LIONEL SHRIVER The proverb is something musty.
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TIMOTHY NOAH Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
CHINESE PROVERB A friend like the wind is a friend forever, a friend like the rain come and go..
OLASOT You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
TIM MINCHIN I would like to thank my new friend. She has taught me never to give up.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that y...
ELLIE WADE Be careful with whom you share your secrets. Don’t forget your best friend has a best friend, and ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me ha...
ANTHONY RYAN No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agen...
H.L. MENCKEN No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune
SWEDISH PROVERB Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend
ARABIAN PROVERB I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they ca...
CHARLES DICKENS It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world
WILLIAM HAZLITT No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of th...
WILLIAM SAROYAN For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when h...
JANE LINDSKOLD TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's m...
WILLIE GARSON I like to look good, my friend.
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JACK SANTINO Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
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PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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PROVERB The work praises the man.
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