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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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