Sober Quotes - Page 8

• So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

  Courtney Love

  Weight, Littles, Cleanliness

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Written

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  Bill Burr

  Years, Ideas, Long

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• If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

  Fisher Ames

  Law, People, Political

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.24

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Eye, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.389

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• I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

  Scott Stapp

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Thinking

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• Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

  Drake

  Commitment, Mistress, Want

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

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• Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Memories, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Drunk

  "How Anne Lamott Got Sober". Interview with Bigthink, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Their own second and sober thoughts.

  Matthew Henry

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.43

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• Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

  Madame Roland

  Joy, Emotion, Serene

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• Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

  Stephen Harper

  News, Canada, Satisfaction

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• In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
  The holy incantation of a verse

  Robert Herrick

  Morning, Poetry, Holy

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.39

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• Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Should Have, Law

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• Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

  Christian Slater

  Jobs, Hobbies, Staying

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• They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
  With oaths like rivets forced into the brain;
  And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,
  They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Doubt, Brain

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.83

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• There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Mind

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• Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.590

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• Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trying, Weakness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Scotch, Drunk

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.

  Ed Byrne

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Giving, Adorable, Generosity

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