Sober Quotes

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I meant it when I said I would sleep anywhere with her.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

I prefer being totally sober myself.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.