Quotes from Samuel Hopkins Adams

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

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

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

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

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

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

All I want is to be in the game.

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

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.

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

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.

The secret of happiness. Those dancing kiddies have got it. I want it. I want to know what makes 'em so happy.

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

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.

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

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

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.

Never before has the message of solidarity been so gravely needed. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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

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.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

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

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.