Sober Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Sober

Sober Quotes & Sayings

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. — Aristotle.

You have no idea how long a year is until you're stone sober. — Bill Burr

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. — James Thurber

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. — Johan Huizinga

Travelling ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country — Thomas Jefferson

There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. — Edmund Burke

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

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. — Dana Plato

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. — H.P. Lovecraft

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life. — Penn Jillette

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

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller

Children should be taught the inner and outer beauty related to one's sexuality and personal relationship to sex. — Asa Don Brown

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older. — Nikki Sixx

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

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. — William Wordsworth

I stayed sober for a year and a half, which is like dog years to a 25-year-old. I — Sarah Hepola

Let he who sins when drunk be punished when sober. - Quoted in Kendrick v. Hopkins, 1580 — Keith G. Laufenberg

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job. — Christian Slater

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. — Jonathan Swift

To live sober is ... to die countless times! — Veena Malik

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,
like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now. — Glenn Hughes

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable. — Alyson Noel

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober. — William Butler Yeats

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

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up. — Augusten Burroughs

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

His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk. — James Joyce

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. — Martin Van Buren

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. — James Joyce

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place. — Stephen Harper

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

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober' — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. — Samuel Butler

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober. — Connie Willis

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen

Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober. — Ed Byrne

I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober. — Phil Volatile

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour. — Joan Acocella

May you begin living beyond. — Asa Don Brown

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel. — Toni Morrison

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say? — James Pinckney Miller

How do you look when I'm sober? — Ring Lardner Jr.

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

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

The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over. — Bif Naked

Be an informed advocate and support. — Asa Don Brown

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say? — Lee Remick

We must be sober and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 — Beth Moore

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

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

Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable. — Dorothy Dunnett

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

No one dances sober, unless he is insane. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career. — Daniel Baldwin

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep. — Esther Meynell

I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober. — Eugene O'Neill

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate. — Asa Don Brown

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway. — Robert Rankin

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

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. — Asa Don Brown

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

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

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

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. — Asa Don Brown

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. — Sherman Alexie

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. — Anne Lamott

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting. — Peter O'Toole

While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth

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

I've been sober nearly two months, but I have yet to go cold turkey on assholicism. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. — John Wayne

How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him. — Josh Lanyon

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive. — Marianne Williamson

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. — Sylvia Plath

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship. — Asa Don Brown

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. — Winston Churchill

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. — Danny Bonaduce

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children. — Asa Don Brown

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. — Kenneth Tynan

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober. — Alcoholics Anonymous

How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett

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

Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to. — Jack Kerouac

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

And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy

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

Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter. — Lara Biyuts

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. — Daniel Baldwin

No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit... — Asa Don Brown