Sober Quotes

426 quotes by 318 authors

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good. — Rogers Hornsby
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. — Bill W.
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership.… — Bill W.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober. — Martha Reeves
Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life. — Colin Farrell
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel… — Eminem
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky… — Jack Newfield
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but… — Tertullian
No sober person dances. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine… — Herodotus
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. — Irwin Shaw
I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up… — Joe Perry
What's the point of staying sober? — Oliver Reed
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the… — Ernestine Rose
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste… — William Prynne
Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and… — Anne Enright

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