Quotes About Sobriety

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

Drunk driving is a killer disease.

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

Nobody forced me to speak. Nobody? Ah yes, alcohol had made me do it. When once I had understood, when once I had realised to the full, what a liar alcohol is, and what liars it makes of honest men, I swore never to touch another drop and even to give up my occasional glass of beer. But what are resolutions, what are plans?

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking if we have a legitimate reason for being there… Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good." 6

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

I'll be seeking professional help with regards to alcohol and, until myself and the club feel this is under control, I'll be off the drink.

My commitment to living clean is now unwavering.

I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.