Sober Quotes

426 quotes by 334 authors

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning. — Winston Churchill
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage — Thomas Jefferson
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so… — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. — Malcolm Lowry
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of… — Samuel Johnson
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be… — Mary Karr
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. — Charles Lamb
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.… — Clarence Day
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober. — Gertrude Stein
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy… — Rajneesh
We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message. — Radhanath Swami
If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over — Macklemore
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture. — Neil Simon

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334 authors contributed a total of 426 Sober Quotes, led by these top contributors: