Sober Quotes - Page 3

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

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

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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!

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

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.

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

Did you ever try to sleep sober?

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Half as sober as a judge.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

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.

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

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

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.