Something terrible has happened. The Irish have become hard-working and sober. – The Simpsons Homer Simpson to Moe. In episode, In the Name of the Grandfather.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3. Owl-eyed man in Gatsby’s show library. The library is part of Gatsby’s great facade and the great illusion – he wants people to think he is cultured and sophisticated.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. – The Bible 1 Thessalonians 5:8
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. – Charles Mackay
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. – The Bible Saint Peter , 1 Peter 5:8
You’d be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it. – James Pinckney Miller
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
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. – Martin Van Buren
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. – Logan Pearsall Smith
