17 Quotes by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

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

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

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

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.

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.

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

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.