Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I… — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell,… — John Wayne 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
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 Copy Share Image
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“To sober up seems to many like making life “so serious,” as if seriousness precluded joy, warmth, spontaneity and fun. But there… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that… — Henry Every Copy Share Image
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day,… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image