Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a… — Day Keene Copy Share Image
Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars… — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
“Only bottles and locks and drawn curtains," Pen says, trying to balance on the edge of the sidewalk to little avail. "This… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade… — Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor Copy Share Image
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances.… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where… — Marc Wallice Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
My favorite actor was, is, Michael Keaton. Certainly growing up, in the movie 'Night Shift' he did something brand new that I… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique…If there had been someone… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We were still twirling around the tiny parking lot when the neighbors screamed 'Happy New Year'. Unfortunately we weren't sober enough to… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“It was just boring, is all. I knew better than to think there was going to be booze after all this time,… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and… — David Feherty Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For the Christian church… to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other… — Rum Copy Share Image
“When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says;… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
If you're only having fun while you're high or drunk & that's when you're less conscious of your life. Then your life… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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.… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Alcohol may comfort a man until he is sober, but doesnt fill his psychological gaps; it only replaces the lack of God… — Marcia Persaud Copy Share Image
