Samuel Hopkins Adams Quotes

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

Samuel Hopkins Adams
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
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

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

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 effervescence a subtle poison.

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

Samuel Hopkins Adams
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

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

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

Samuel Hopkins Adams