Sober Quotes - Page 14

• I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

  Dannie Abse

  Real, Drunk, Littles

  "Susannah Herbert on Dannie Abse, the poetry judge". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

  Charles Mackay

  Pieces, Paper, Causes

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.8

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• Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

  Bonar Law

  Drunk, Speech

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• I have mummy truths to tell
  Whereat the living mock,
  Though not for sober ear,
  For maybe all that hear
  Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Afterlife, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.37, Hayes Barton Press

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• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

  Herodotus

  Drunk, Decision, House

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

  Noel Coward

  Fuel, Youth, Gin

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• Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  Plato

  Madness, Humans

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• I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

  Glenn Hughes

  Thinking, Lyrical, Materials

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• He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

  Plato

  Art, Thinking, Doors

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• If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow's amethyst. And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn at night And cannot wear in sober day.

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Spiritual, Jesus, Men

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• The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

  Trent Reznor

  Persons

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• Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Challenges, World

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

  Frank Sinatra

  Color, Play, People

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• Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.

  Chris Hardwick

  Girl, Running, Clubs

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• Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

  John Adams

  Christian, Men, Numbers

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1969). “The Works of John Adams: Controversial papers of the Revolution (continued) Works on government”

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• This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

  John Henry Newman

  Party, Men, Judging

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

  John Adams

  Christian, Men, Dignity

  John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.277

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• It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

  Corey Stoll

  Character, Drunk, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

  Joe Walsh

  Years, Long, Like You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Drug, Awful, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

  Joe Walsh

  Real, Writing, Wife

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

  Socrates

  Life, Success, Education

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• He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time.” “Yeah, but this isn’t—” I couldn’t argue with him looking at me like that. “I have to go. Wait… you didn’t take the cross.” I held it out to him. He shook his head. “Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Drunk, Waiting

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