Sober Quotes

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

How do you look when I'm sober?

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Half as sober as a judge.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

Did you ever try to sleep sober?

Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

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 sober probability.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

To live sober is...to die countless times!