Sober Quotes

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

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

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

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

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

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

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

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

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.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.

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

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

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.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

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

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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.

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

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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.

You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.

Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

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

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'