Sober Quotes

Sober Quote of the day

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin

I think better when I'm not sober

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.