Quotes About Sobriety

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.)

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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.

Gin and catatonic?

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

I used to drink a lot of beer and brandy when I was in my twenties. Today, I read books and my hangovers are worth talking about.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Abstinence is approved of God.

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

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.