Sober Quotes

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.