Definition of Sobriety

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Sobriety

Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.

Related Definitions:

As, Calmness, Coolness, Enthusiasm, Freedom, From, Gravity, Habitual, Imagination, Inordinate, Man, Of, Or, Passion, Soberness, Sobriety, Spirituous, Temperance, The, To, Use

Sobriety Quotations

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Billy Joel

I do not live in the world of sobriety.
Oliver Reed

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
Rob Lowe

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
James Larkin

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
Rob Lowe

Sobriety Translations

sobriety in Spanish is seriedad
sobriety in Swedish is nykterhet

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