Over the edge Quotes by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Anything is easy to the man who sees… The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams