Quotes About Sobriety

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Parfois des ivrognes notoires se rachetaient par un beau jardin cultivé entre deux cuites.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Two wives despaired of him,' he said. 'When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.' 'Why did she do that?' Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that's not really the point of the story.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Trouble is when you're sober you don't want to see anybody, and when you're tight nobody wants to see you.

he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down

mad with common sense

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.

Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers….

It had been a gay party and different stages of sobriety were represented.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

I feel good that I have my life in order. I'm not addicted to anything that I'm aware of.

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober up and when you have the ability to navigate being social and having relationships and being in a band and having friends while sober.

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.