Sober Quotes

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

Morning, Drunk, May

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

Drunk, Said, Keep

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

Fact, Point, Happier

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

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

Sad, Wise, Sorry

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.
William James

Nature, Power, Human

'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.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mother, Drunk, Saying

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
Craig Ferguson

Wait, Alcohol, Worth

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.
Samuel Butler

Money, School, Children

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

Drunk, Thought, Might

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

Men, Drunk, Worst

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe

True, Others, Whatever

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

Drunk, Different, Bus

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Sleep, Christian, Drunken

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
Steven Adler

Time, Tired, Feeling

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.
Tom Robbins

Humanity, Immature, Rebellious

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

Rude, Purpose, Gentleman

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Sleep, Christian, Drunken

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
Tracey Emin

Life, Mistakes, Drunk

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.
Tom Arnold

Sometimes, Honor, Hurts

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

Everything, Before, Able

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

Remain, Clean, Remains

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.
Gary Oldman

Life, Child, Getting

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

Love, Working, Beer

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

Life, Positive, Successful

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

Men, Wise, Enough

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce

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

Someone, Addiction, Except

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

Age, Wish, Younger

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean de la Bruyere

God, Person, Speak

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