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
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
No,''he said.''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did...terrible things.'' The words were mild, but the tone of his… — Richelle Mead 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
“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 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
“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
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
... 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
“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
I use to pop pills all the time, but once I got sober. I saw life so diffrent. I know have all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had… — John Flavel 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
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
