“How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are,' he said. 'For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can just as easily see it with your eyes closed.”
Norton Juster
“More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much”
P.T. Barnum
“Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm”
George Eliot
“Bah,' said Scrooge. "Humbug!"”
Charles Dickens
“Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?”
Edwina Currie
“This is all humbug. There is just no deal,”
Pervez Musharraf
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
Dag Hammarskjold
