Nostrum Quotes (1)
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
The Village Comedy Vol. 2. In Peter McDonald, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 27. Quoted without attribution in Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Many Things in Few Words (1866), 191. Attributed in Encarta to Peter Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (1878-1947), who was born after the publication by Colton.
