Sober Quotes - Page 3

• Be careful what you pray for.

  Janet Morris

  Recovery, Fate, Praying

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Drunk, Library

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.37, Atlântico Press

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• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

  William Saroyan

  Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

  Anthony Trollope

  Devil, Honest, Drink

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1941, e-artnow

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• To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

  Aristotle

  Climbing, Insanity, Anarchy

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• The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

  Hannah More

  Spring, Comfort, Littles

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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• I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin

  Red Skelton

  Drinking, Guy, Next

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Flavor, Vinegar

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Time, Ignorance

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.498

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• Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

  Bill W.

  Honesty, Tolerance, Way

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• A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Soul, Sound

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sad, Laughter, Ex Boyfriend

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• To live sober is...to die countless times!

  Veena Malik

  Life, Dies

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• Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Opportunity, Energy

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• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  John Milton

  Majestic, Demure, Pensive

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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• We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

  Radhanath Swami

  Suffering, Messages, Krishna

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• If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

  Macklemore

  Rap, Starting Over, Example

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• I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

  Steven Adler

  Depressing, Tired, Sick

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• There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

  Moby

  Support, Trying, Musician

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• My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Heart, Reality, Mad

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• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Self, People

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”

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• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Horse, Science, Games

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• They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Should, Ashamed

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.41, Penguin

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