Sober Quotes - Page 18

• I let it fall, my heart
  And as it fell, you rose to claim it,
  It was dark, and I was sober,
  Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

  Adele

  Break Up, Fall, Heart

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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Waking, Bliss

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

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• It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

  James Madison

  War, Fall, Agency

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• Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Motto

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• The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

  Kingsley Amis

  Ice, Race, Way

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  Lewis Carroll

  Sadness, Gay, Childhood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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• At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Rain, Men, Inquiry

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• Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Enough, Drowning, Tyrion

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• What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

  David Foster Wallace

  Choices, What If, Temples

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
  [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Drinking, Men, Prudence

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• Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Philosophy, Wine, Cutting

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

  Ani DiFranco

  Bored, Feelings, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Come Away From It, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over.

  Bif Naked

  Sex, Firsts, Made

  Song: Lucky, Album: I Bificus

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• I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Golf, Thinking

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• It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

  Plato

  Men, Doors, Poetry

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• The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Sailor, Saws, Weakness

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• No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Dollars, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
  Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;
  But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,
  Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

  John Fletcher

  Fall, Bed, October

  "Rollo, Duke of Normandy". Book by John Fletcher, 1639.

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Eye, Black

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

  Rob Lowe

  Years, Nine, Married

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• Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

  Raymond Chandler

  Crazy, Hollywood, Wonderful

  "Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age". Book by Paul Zollo, 2002.

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