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

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 pref….

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

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

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

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

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diag….

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

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst..

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

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail..

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

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 induc….

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by the….

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

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 ….

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

Boredom and booze--cause and effect..

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

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..