Quotes About Sobriety

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

Simon Templar, with the old careless swashbuckling days behind him, more stern and sober, playing bigger games than he had ever touched before – yet with the light of all the old ideals in blue eyes that would never grow old, and all the old laughing hell-for-leather recklessness waiting for his need.

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.

Every morning he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Every morning when he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by five o'clock in the afternoon.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

a nonderanged boss

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Finally, although Tennent's Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging? I think lighter fuel is better for you and contains fewer chemicals.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

Never Drink and Drive . . . you might spill.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

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.