Mary Schmich Quotes

Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefitted by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now open to question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. Ought any, then, to refuse their aid in doing what good the good of the whole wold demands.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Although Drunkenness be justly termed a vice which the Salvages are ignorant of, yet the benefit is very great that comes to the planters by the sale of strong liquor to the Salvages, who are much taken with the delight of it; for they will pawn their wits, to purchase the acquaintance of it.

Ardent spirits [injured] the health, morals [and] economy of the community.

I need you to read more and drink less.

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

I'm anti-drugs, 100 percent. I don't like drugs or alcohol. I never did either of the two, and I don't plan on it.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?