#sober

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 P. Smith

#behave #could #day #drink #like

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#calls #creed #everyone #everything #forgiveness

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand. ↗

— James Taylor

#breaking up #marriage #responsible #sobering #stand

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#drunken #enough #men #sober #themselves

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

#both #distressing #frequency #idols #lastly

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#been #dead #had #mozart #sobering

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. ↗

— Malcolm Lowry

#couple #days #die #god #good

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#composed #fact #got #half #him

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#deal #endeavor #existence #facts #fancy

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. ↗

— George A. Smith

#life #more #none #recklessly #sobered