Sober Quotes

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 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.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

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.

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.

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.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

'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.'

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

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.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

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

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

What's the point of staying sober?

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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.

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

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

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

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

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.