Samuel Hopkins Adams Quotes

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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

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

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 all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

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

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

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

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

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

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

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

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 besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

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

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