Sober Quotes - Page 15

• I have mummy truths to tell
  Whereat the living mock,
  Though not for sober ear,
  For maybe all that hear
  Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Afterlife, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.37, Hayes Barton Press

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

  Frank Sinatra

  Color, Play, People

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• The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and taking 40 Vicodin. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

  David Feherty

  Drinking, Taken, Two

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, News

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• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Winter, Journey

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• I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Thinking, Pedestal

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Enough, Drowning, Tyrion

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• Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Motto

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• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Waking, Bliss

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

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• While all the future, for thy purer soul,
  With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Love Is, Soul

  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.70

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• I let it fall, my heart
  And as it fell, you rose to claim it,
  It was dark, and I was sober,
  Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

  Adele

  Break Up, Fall, Heart

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• If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

  Chuck Jones

  Dog, Cat, Drunk

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• I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  People, Office, President

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 01, 1878.

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• I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

  Roy Eldridge

  Music, Baby, Thinking

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• The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

  Martin Van Buren

  People, Efficient

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• After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

  Martha Reeves

  Simple, Squares, Years

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• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  Colin Farrell

  Grateful, Years, Addiction

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• It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

  Eminem

  Song, Years, Addiction

  "Eminem admits he 'almost died' from drug overdose" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2009.

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• We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

  Mary Renault

  Drunk, Serious, Matter

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• Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Philosophy, Past, Idols

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• It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

  Olivia Wilde

  Drinking, Healthy, Common

  Source: collider.com

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• That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Responsibility, Men

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