#sob

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. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#found #god #i #just #least

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#country #desperate #drunk #ever #except

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. ↗

— James Joyce

#ireland #sober #stiff

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

— Janice Dickinson

#gotten #i #i wish #sober #wish

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing. ↗

— Nora Dunn

#i #part #performing #prepared #sober

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#enlightening #experience #failing #good #life

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#become #before #more #per #pregnant

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

— Barry Mann

#i #sober #songs #written

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#already #been #consider #dead #had