#sober

What's the point of staying sober? ↗

— Oliver Reed

#sober #staying

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#children #depends #exhausting #first #forever

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#drunk #keep #mouth #said #shut

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

— Dana Plato

#decade #i #joke #longest #longest time

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut! ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#drunk #keep #mouth #said #shut

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

#drunken #fact #happier #man #more

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dead #drink #few #get #glasses

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