Sober Quotes · Page 16

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

— Anthony Trollope

Republic . . . it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

— John Wayne

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the…

— Dorothy Allison

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Malcolm Lowry

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us…

— Francis Atterbury

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have…

— Nita Strauss

I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You…

— Joe Walsh

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall…

— Clarence Day

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual…

— Bill W

Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love…

— Maximus the Confessor

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and…

— Paulo Coelho

“Meetings are the Hail Marys of alcoholics. You can do or almost do anything, feel anything, commit any number of non-sober atrocities,…

— Augusten Burroughs

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.…

— Susan Cheever

“She’s still smiling her little smile, and it strikes me that, actually, she is drunk, not on alcohol, but on her St.…

— Tim Tharp

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Dress hanging off your shoulder, barely sober, telling me how you moving away and starting over.

— Drake

Yes, I'm drunk. But you are beautiful. And tomorrow morning I'll be sober, but you'll still be beautiful.

— Anonymous

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two…

— Daniel Baldwin

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This…

— Frankie Grande

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Anonymous

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the…

— Chris Prentiss

“I wasn’t sober for even a single minute of my three-day bender, yet I emerged with a clear head and clean spirit.…

— Kandi Steiner

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

— Ted Nugent

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

— Gerard Way

“Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his…

— Louise Erdrich

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you…

— George Carlin

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

— H. L. Mencken

Life actually got so bad that I wanted to die. I wanted to die because I wasn't happy when I was sober…

— Jack Osbourne

Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my…

— William Butler Yeats

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way…

— Kristen Johnston

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew…

— Bradford Cox

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

— Monica Crowley

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more,…

— William Faulkner

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

— Augusten Burroughs

Did you ever heard everything I said? Did you ever try understand my regrets? Stop flickering cigarette. I cant no longer hold…

— Louaiq8