Sober Quotes - Page 6

• How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dad, Father, Boys

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Drinking, Drunk, Conversation

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• I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Careers

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, Wine, Beer

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• It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

  Andrew McMahon

  Night, Drunk, 21st Birthday

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• Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Passion, Patriotism, Age

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• Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober.
  How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Beer

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• Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Elegance

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• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  William Godwin

  Passion, Revolution, Quiet

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244

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• 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

  Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

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• Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Spiritual, Sorry

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• All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

  Anne Lamott

  Pain, Grief, Home

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• There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

  Mark Lilla

  Party, Leader, Political

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• Did you ever try to sleep sober?

  Doug Stanhope

  Sleep, Trying

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  Jules Michelet

  Coffee, Reality, Clouds

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• When the tribal groups of december trade
  Seated in the figure of crocodile
  And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made
  Real. All... For more than one reason they smile.
  These codes are writ in secret, feeling fine
  To keep what's private to my self since we
  All must face our maker in our own ryhme
  And reasons for being ( from regrets) free
  So let the memory of your glory
  Be the tenderness heartfelt love starkly
  In the sky of my mind vast and pretty
  Evermore glittering simplicity
  Where in the truth of country grows sober
  And sunshines through fog to radiate wonder

  John Armstrong

  Country, Song, Nature

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• I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

  Charlie Sheen

  People, Going Away, Probation

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• My big thing is to get onstage sober. Whatever happens from there happens. But you get onstage drunk and it's not going to be good. It takes a while. I have to sing a lot, so I can only drink so much. So most nights it's fine; even if I drink as much as I possibly can, I can't get that drunk.

  Craig Finn

  Night, Drunk, Drink

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• That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

  Martin Luther

  Character, Men, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.293

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mean, Rights, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.2

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• The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

  Epicurus

  Drinking, Sea, Dancing

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• Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Lessons, Wonderful, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Joy, Serious

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