With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
