Top 100 Quotes About Sober
#1. Trouble is when you're sober you don't want to see anybody, and when you're tight nobody wants to see you.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.
Connie Willis
#3. Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
Virginia Woolf
#4. This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
John Henry Newman
#5. When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says; 'I lived that way for years, and I submit to you that's not livin that's a fuckin death-in-life.
David Foster Wallace
#6. I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.
Roman Payne
#7. A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. 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.
Paulo Coelho
#9. University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.
Richard Tillotson
#10. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William Rounseville Alger
#12. My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.
Mark McKinnon
#13. Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#14. Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United States, back before the Disunion, always met sober, and look at what had come of that.
John C. Wright
#15. Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness.
James Lileks
#16. We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again).
C.J. Box
#17. I know. But I like you even more when I'm sober." "Boom," Bernice moaned. "Right in the feels.
T.J. Klune
#20. Well aware that to bring the voice of sober reason to bear upon the exaggerations of agitated females was both fruitless and perilous, Freddy wisely let this pass ...
Georgette Heyer
#21. I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
Georgette Heyer
#22. Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#23. One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.
Karen Chance
#24. I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.
John Daly
#25. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?
Louise Penny
#26. I was drunk, pretty sure this wouldn't be happening if I was sober.
Khali Raymond
#27. My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!
Habeeb Akande
#28. So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.
Courtney Love
#30. Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
#31. Never thought I'd intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I meant it when I said I would sleep anywhere with her.
J.A. Redmerski
#32. 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 a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.
Joe Perry
#33. The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history.
Ron Chernow
#34. How the fuck did I get here? I thought. If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn't even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape.
Augusten Burroughs
#35. Also I couldn't find the packing peanuts for the booze, so I just drank it all. YOU WILL MISS ME SO MUCH ONCE I'M SOBER ENOUGH TO WAKE UP AND DRIVE AWAY.
Jenny Lawson
#36. If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
John Adams
#37. The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony Trollope
#38. Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.
Craig Ferguson
#39. Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
Colin Farrell
#40. Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#41. If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.
Herman Melville
#42. This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.
Khaled Hosseini
#43. Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to
Charles Dickens
#44. Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples who through their rituals were identified with the gods.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#45. In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.
Dennis Miller
#46. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.
Carl Sagan
#47. The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist
Logan Pearsall Smith
#48. I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.
Fran Lebowitz
#49. In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse
Robert Herrick
#50. The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Hannah More
#51. It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
Daniel Baldwin
#52. A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.
Monica Crowley
#53. My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.
Dashiell Hammett
#54. Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.
William Tyndale
#57. 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
#58. Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon
#59. Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Ozzy Osbourne
#61. The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
Martin Van Buren
#62. Hell, no, I'm not sober. You think I'd be doing this shit if I were? And I notice I don't see your fat ass down here in the trenches so shut it before I forget I'm supposed to actually like you. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond her opinions to the implied insult.
Olivia Parker
#64. Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.
Robert Menzies
#65. Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
John Lyly
#66. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.
James Pinckney Miller
#68. He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
#69. Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
Charles Lamb
#70. I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.
Macklemore
#72. Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.
Stephen Harper
#74. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
Raymond Chandler
#75. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
Moby
#76. I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
Matthew Perry
#77. I had been as sober as the day of a court-ordered drug test
Katie McGarry
#78. When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'
Joe Perry
#80. Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
John Tillotson
#81. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
Francis Chichester
#82. I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
Anne Lamott
#83. Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#84. It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. It was natural enough that a warm, open, simple-hearted, honest giant like Razumihin, who had never seen any one like her and was not quite sober at the time, should lose his head immediately
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
#87. If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad ... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
Jack Osbourne
#88. The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
William Wordsworth
#89. Don't say you'll try. Say you'll succeed. Trying means you're giving yourself the option to fail. Don't give yourself that option. I didn't and look at me five years sober.
L. H. Cosway
#90. That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.
Martin Luther
#91. How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober.
Dashiell Hammett
#92. A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.
Taryn Plendl
#93. 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
#94. Drunk minds speak sober thoughts, right?
R.S. Grey
#95. Im a bitch, Im a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
'cause Im better than you
Its the way that I move
The things that I do
Elton John
#96. I just want you to remember it. All of it. In vivid, technicolor clarity. And that can only be achieved if you're sober. When you and I come together for the first time, I want you to remember every touch," I ran my hand up her arm and down her back, causing her to shiver. "Every moan.
J.L. Berg
#97. Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.
Mark Knopfler
#98. 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.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#99. The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren
#100. Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented on everything. Nothing was ever done right or cooked right or handed to him properly or ironed straight or finished off fully with him.
Donal Ryan
