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Quotes About Sober

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.
~ Raymond Chandler
Look. If you want to go back to the ship fully clothed and mostly sober, I promise I wont tell anyone.
~ Karen Traviss
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
~ Samuel Johnson
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
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
~ John Lyly
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
~ Samuel Butler
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
~ John Cage
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
~ John Cage
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
~ Robert Herrick
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
~ William Butler Yeats
What! grieve that time has brought so soon The sober age of manhood on! As idly might I weep, at noon, To see the blush of morning gone.
~ William Cullen Bryant
We could eat, why not? We're sober, so he'll let us in, the bastard. I ate there the other night, had a bowl of soup because I was starvin'. But god it was sour. Them dried-out bums that live there, they sit down and eat like fuckin' pigs, and everything that's left they throw in the pot and give it to you. Slop." "He puts out a good meal, though.
~ William Kennedy
Bleib' nüchtern und vergiss' nicht, skeptisch zu sein!
~ David Hume
Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?
~ El-P
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
~ Malcolm Lowry
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
~ Alexander Pope
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
~ Plato
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
~ Will Rogers
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
~ Neil Simon
This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.
~ Frank Carson
There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.
~ Edmund Burke