Sober Quotes - Page 13

• Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, Drunk, Three

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• Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

  Mats Sundin

  Drunk, Faster, Harder

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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

  Writing, Ideas, Clean

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

  Dennis Miller

  Addiction, Century, Late

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.48, Main Street Books

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Drunk, Problem, Blokes

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• Sleepy Christian, let me shout in thine ears: thou are sleeping while souls are being lost, sleeping while men are being damned, sleeping while hell is being peopled, sleeping while Christ is being dishonored, sleeping while the devil is grinning at thy sleepy face, sleeping while demons are dancing round thy slumbering carcass, and telling it in hell that a Christian is asleep. You will never catch the devil asleep; let not the devil catch you asleep. Watch, and be sober, that ye may be always up to do your duty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Sleep, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Spurgeon's Gems: Being Brilliant Passages from the Discourses of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  William James

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

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• Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Spring, Fighting, Feet

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Broken

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

  Dana Plato

  Jokes, Has Beens, Decades

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

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• 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

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.

  Thomas Howes

  Morning, Drunk, Stories

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Boys, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• Half as sober as a judge.

  Charles Lamb

  Judging, Half

  Charles Lamb (2013). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.407, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

  John Milton

  Children, Mean, Law

  John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

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• To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Feds, Warm

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• And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

  Dario Fo

  Fall, Bed, October

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• I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

  Kristin Davis

  Beer, Years, Bass

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• To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Truth, Lying

  Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”

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• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Lying, Giving

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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