Sober Quotes

• If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

  

  Bernard Manning
  • Drink
  • Sober

• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Brutes

• What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

  

  Louis Jordan
  • Use
  • Drunk
  • Getting Sober

• 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

• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Experience
  • Purpose
  • Religious

• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Moderation
  • Sober
  • Consequently

• Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Sense
  • Result

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  

  John Milton
  • Sober
  • Bliss
  • Waking

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

  

  John Milton
  • Train
  • Steadfast
  • Majestic

• 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
  • Men
  • Drinking
  • Dancing

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

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Way
  • Honesty
  • Tolerance

• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Years

• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Sober

• The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Horrific

• I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Real
  • Littles
  • Drunk

• I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Drugs
  • Clean
  • Sober

• Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Reason
  • Reflection
  • Adversity

• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • Present
  • Sober

• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Sports

• You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

  

  William Penn
  • Grace
  • Mercy
  • Resolution

• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sad
  • Sober
  • Affliction

• It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Words
  • Performer
  • Sober

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  

  John Milton
  • Silence
  • Bird
  • Beast

• Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Sober
  • Bravest

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