Sober quotes
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And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.
-- Alyson Noel -
I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
-- Anne Lamott -
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
-- Aristotle -
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I prefer being totally sober myself.
-- Aziz Ansari -
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
-- Barry Mann -
The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over.
-- Bif Naked -
Half as sober as a judge.
-- Charles Lamb -
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
-- Charles Lamb -
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 -
Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.
-- Christian Slater -
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
-- Dana Plato -
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I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.
-- Danny Bonaduce -
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
-- Dean Martin -
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
-- Edward Gibbon -
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Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?
-- El-P -
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I stayed sober for this?
-- George R. R. Martin -
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
-- Gertrude Stein -
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I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.
-- Glenn Hughes -
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
-- Irwin Shaw -
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.
-- Jack Newfield -
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
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I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!
-- John Flavel -
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I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
-- John Mayer -
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
-- John Milton -
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
-- John Tillotson -
One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.
-- Karen Chance -
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)
-- Louis Jordan -
No sober person dances.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
-- Martin Van Buren -
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
-- Martin Van Buren -
Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.
-- Mats Sundin -
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I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
-- Matthew Perry -
You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.
-- Na Hae Ryeong -
I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing
-- Nora Dunn -
What's the point of staying sober?
-- Oliver Reed -
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
-- Ozzy Osbourne -
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
-- Plato -
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
-- Raymond Chandler -
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
-- Robert Herrick -
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Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.
-- Robert Rankin -
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.
-- Rumi -
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
-- Samuel Smiles -
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet -
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I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.
-- Ted Nugent -
The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
-- Trent Reznor -
To live sober is...to die countless times!
-- Veena Malik -
During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.
-- Gonjasufi -
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I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
-- Malachy McCourt -
How do you look when I'm sober?
-- Ring Lardner, Jr. -
If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.
-- Bernard Manning -
Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
-- Bonar Law -
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There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.
-- Bucky Sinister -
I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.
-- Rogers Hornsby -
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.
-- Tara Stiles -
I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.
-- Joe Walsh -
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This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?
-- Lee Remick -
Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.
-- Madame Roland
