The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety — Moliere Copy Share Image
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only… — Bill W Copy Share Image
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety. — Thomas Oden Copy Share Image
“AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings. — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I lift my restraining order against sobriety for 40 days each Lent. I miss you alcohol. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash. — Mary Docter Copy Share Image