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

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

'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

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

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
William Godwin

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.
Noomi Rapace

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren

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

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?
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 C. Ransom

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

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

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan

What's the point of staying sober?
Oliver Reed

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis