17 Quotes by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

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

Shortest straw pulls the skunk’s tail.

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.

Boredom and booze – cause and effect.

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.

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