DOCTOR (to patient)—"You've had a pretty close call. It's only your strong constitution that pulled you through."
PATIENT—"Well, doctor, remember that when you make out your bill."
A quack doctor was holding forth about his "medicines" to a rural audience.
"Yes, gentlemen," he said, "I have sold these pills for over twenty-five years and never heard a word of complaint. Now, what does that prove?"
From a voice in the crowd came: "That dead men tell no tales."
See also Bills; Remedies.