Sober Quotes - Page 15

• You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.

  Na Hae Ryeong

  Drama, Drink, Hard

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Atheist, Tyrants

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100

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• Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Affection, Exaggerated

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• I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

  Georgia Salpa

  Girl, Thinking, Able

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• I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Thinking, Pedestal

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• The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and taking 40 Vicodin. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

  David Feherty

  Drinking, Taken, Two

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, News

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• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Scotch, Two, Brave

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• I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

  Donna Air

  Silly, Skirts, Honest

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Men

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• How do you look when I'm sober?

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Drinking, Looks

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• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

  Richard Burton

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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• Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beer, Remembers Everything, Wish

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

  Malcolm Lowry

  Couple, Beer, Civilization

  Malcolm Lowry (1985). “Under the Volcano”

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• 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

  Men, Principles, Foundation

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.194

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• And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Alcohol, Ugly

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• Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Drunk, Mad, Sobriety

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.167

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• I'm dead sober. This is just me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  "Jennifer Lawrence’s Guide To Life" By Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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• My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

  Mark McKinnon

  Brother, Hero, Emotional

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• It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

  Olivia Wilde

  Drinking, Healthy, Common

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Passion, Responsibility, Men

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• The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Foolish Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

  Alfred Tarski

  Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

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