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Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life? — Louise Erdrich

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

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

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head'
the only part that could fortify the heart of man. — Carlos Castaneda

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

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

Animals don't seem to fear death like we do. I believe they know they're going to a better place, they're going home; — David Wells

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

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

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

What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober. — Nana Awere Damoah

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If there is but one person in the world who is touched by your work, it makes it all worthwhile. — Judah Lee Davis

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. — Lou Henry Hoover

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. — Harry Crews

Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery. — R. Scott Bakker

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. — Francis Quarles

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble. — Hannah More

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear. — Joseph Addison

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. — Amy Poehler

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill. — William Butler Yeats

Feeling like the last sober man in a crazed nation that ran on booze. — Steve Toltz

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality. — Tom DeMarco

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