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Quackery


We have no longer faith in miracles and relics, and therefore with the same fury run after recipes and physicians. The same money which three hundred years ago was given for the health of the soul is now given for the health of the body, and by the same sort of people—women and half-witted men.
Mary Wortley Montagu

It is better to have recourse to a quack, if he can cure our disorder, although he cannot explain it, than to a physician, if he can explain our disease, but cannot cure it.
C. C. Colton

Quality


Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't take ingots with us to market; we take silver or small change. (Des qualités trop supérieures rendent souvent un homme moins propre à la société. On ne va pas au marché avec des lingots; on y va avec de l'argent ou de la petite monnaie.)
Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort

Quarrel


Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
La Rochefoucauld

Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
John Gay

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the callosity formed round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
Ascribed to St. Francis de Sales

The quarrels of friends in the latter part of life are never truly reconciled.
William Shenstone

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Henry Taylor

An old quarrel can be easily revived.
Italian Proverb

Queer


All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen, to his partner W. Allen, on severing business relations

Question


Scott Buchanan … taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.
Milton Mayer

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
George Wald

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Publilivs Syrus

Quickness


Quick ripe, quick rotten.
Italian Proverb

It is done quickly enough if it is done well. (Sat cito si sat bene.)
Latin Proverb

What is quickly done is quickly undone. (Quod cito fit, cito perit.)
Latin Proverb

Quiet


Quiet persons are welcome everywhere.
Thomas Fuller

I like a quiet life …
and I don't like seeing
people cry or die.
John Ruskin

Quotation


It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

I know heaps of quotations, so I can always make quite a fair show of knowledge.
O. Douglas

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith

He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
Hannah Moore

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