The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Parallels 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… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Advertising 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… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Incitement Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Blasphemy Copy Share Image
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Advertising Copy Share Image
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Career Copy Share Image
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Hope 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 Bubbles 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 Bored 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… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Devil 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 Above the law Copy Share Image
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Analysis Copy Share Image
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Boredom Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Columns Copy Share Image
Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Bored Copy Share Image
“By no stretch of charity could he be called an ornament to the human species.” — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Christianity Copy Share Image
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Age Copy Share Image
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Cures Copy Share Image
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Agents Copy Share Image
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Cures Copy Share Image
