Sober Quotes

• I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Positive

• What's the point of staying sober?

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Point
  • Sober
  • Staying

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

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Atheism
  • Bless
  • Hiding

• She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Sober

• Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Cold
  • Fascinating
  • Sober

• Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Joy
  • Deep
  • Emotion

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

  

  Barry Mann
  • High
  • Songs
  • Sober

• I got sober, and I got happy again.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Happy
  • Got
  • Sober

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

  

  Plato
  • Vain
  • Sober
  • Knock

• 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
  • Ideas
  • Working
  • Dead

• 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 Brazen Abbot
  • Thinking
  • Exploring
  • Lyrical

• 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
  • Death
  • Eye
  • Mortality

• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • People
  • Action
  • Liberty

• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Game

• My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Elsewhere
  • Drunkenness

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Reflection
  • Celebration

• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Earnest
  • Considerate

• 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
  • Thought
  • Library
  • Might

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

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Deserve
  • Sober

• I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Real
  • Night
  • Sober

• 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.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Black

• Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.

  

  Van Jones
  • Crazy
  • Trump
  • Stuff

• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Stupid

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