Top 35 Good Sober Quotes

#1. Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Nicolas Chamfort

#2. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Sherman Alexie

#4. 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 been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

Marc Wallice

#6. Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#7. 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.

Olivia Wilde

#8. I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

E.L. James

#9. I feel sorry for anybody who would let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
- Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Deborah Wiles

#10. When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

#11. Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

Vladimir Putin

#12. At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.

Thomas Pynchon

#13. 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.

Alexander Pope

#14. I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

Pam Grier

#15. Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the
world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

Robert Anton Wilson

#16. The Lush hadn't driven in almost a decade - ever since she got in an accident that shook her so badly she refused to get behind the wheel. As you can imagine, someone nicknamed The Lush wouldn't make a good DD anyway. I'd known her about a year before ever seeing her sober.

Kate Madison

#17. I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

Joe Walsh

#18. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#19. I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

George Takei

#20. 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

#21. I guess you can consider photo shoots modeling, but it's never really interested me. I find it somewhat boring, actually. It wouldn't be something I would do.

Jessica Lucas

#22. Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

John Milton

#23. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.

Marilyn Grey

#24. Stop complaining and start living.

Debasish Mridha

#25. I want to be so happy that bad memories aren't following me around like unwanted shadows.

Adam Silvera

#26. Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Rodney King

#27. I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian community. What a loss for these fun-loving and generous people.

Eric Hansen

#29. Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life?

Louise Erdrich

#30. She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

Ayn Rand

#31. Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Malcolm Lowry

#32. With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.

John Fusco

#33. Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

John Irving

#34. Don't start something that you cannot finish.

Justin Somper

#35. I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

Jodie Sweetin

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