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
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Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.
George Bernard Shaw
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
G. K. Chesterton
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Stanley Baldwin
There's a shared but sober realization of what needs to be done.
Pascal Lamy
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft
I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.
Doug Ferrari
Here at the PUC, we see a kind of gathering storm. Here in the next few months, you will be seeing some sobering utility bills.
Rick Hackman
The good news is that we have a vaccine that can induce an immune response. But the sobering news is . . . we have a long way to go.
Anthony S. Fauci
Often, patients show mental illness and insobriety at the same time. People say that we should hold off on treatment until a patient is clean and sober, but it doesn't work that way.
Nioka Campbell
The situation in Iraq is sufficiently sober [that] I think this has given the Iranians a boost of confidence that they didn't have two years ago, ... They're not scared of us as they once were.
Geoffrey Kemp
They were more than double what I expected. It's exciting science, but sobering.
Gregory Asner
It has been very sobering news.
Casey Pace
It's our job here at Treasury to be a sober voice of reason. Our job here is to promote free trade and capital flows and open markets.
Timothy Adams
When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.
William Plomer
I've asked some property owners to open up their land for bonfires and music so kids have a safe place to hang out. We could open up a gate and do vehicle checks in and out to make sure they arrive and leave sober. I haven't had any takers.
Ken Broadus
He struggles. But he's sober today. He was sober yesterday, he was sober the day before that.
Jimmy Hester
I don't know what I'd do without meetings and the old-timers who have stayed sober and can help people like me.
Mindy Gehr
The mindset has shifted from one of wild optimism to that of conservatism. The party is over and people are starting to sober up.
Steve Tuen
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
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
W. Somerset Maugham
If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober...
Bernard Manning
The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.
Vicki Arroyo
The beast that is always hungry, wanting more coke and laughing at my attempts to get clean and sober.
Dwight Gooden
We're trying to get Gracie's and Strictly Sober reopened.
Robin Burns
It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.
Garry Beers
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edward Chapin
The court's decision should have a sobering effect on those who want to go down the path of terrorism, so that they know their only future is an unmarked grave.
Nikolai Shepel
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Harumi Hiroyama
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Worley Montagu
The all-ages atmosphere is about music and community and having a good, sober time. Not about older men dancing with teenage girls.
Kate Becker
Sober has been mitigated pretty well. I would be really surprised if there's still a problem. I don't see it being a big issue.
Dan Hubbard
Will the administration be wise enough to pull back from its hostile attitude? What is needed is a sober accounting of what is needed, instead of turning to the CIA.
Larry Birns
The person wearing the shirt can point a guest in the direction of a younger sober brother who can give guests rides home. If nothing else, the person wearing the shirt will know who to talk to. They can locate the president or the social chair and elicit their help.
Jacob Best
The Senate's agenda is quite light, ... There are no bills that have passed in the House of Commons. The majority of bills have already passed because we sat one month later into the summer. When you say the Senate is the Chamber of Sober Second Thought, well, you have to be thinking of something.
Ontario Liberal
We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.
Larry Rice
It's sobering. It breeds humility.
Boris Kayser
We're not ready. If it happens tomorrow or next year, we're in trouble. It's a sobering picture.
Bruce Gellin
It's very sobering news for the industry.
Casey Pace
He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.
Adrian Burgos
Years ago, before I got sober, I was a bartender so I was around alcohol all the time. Now, as a recovering alcoholic, I do not go to bars.
Tom Harrington
It gives you a sobering assessment of why this is one of the defining issues of our time.
Terry Tamminen
Then, we thought maybe the police had gotten inside the group that made Sober and might be close to an arrest. But now it's likely that they found a date coded inside an earlier version of the worm.
Ken Dunham
At 20, waiting tables is a great job, but at 24 it's not so great, and at 27, it's downright sobering.
Rob Mckittrick
Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops.
Reed Kroloff
The collections have been very sober, because we return into a minimalism. We've seen a lot of British inspiration. We've seen a lot of the return of the 80s -- skinny pants or leggings or foot-less tights, worn under blazers or big baggy knitwear.
Glenda Bailey
We find it incredible that a man surrounded by two sober officers was able to suddenly sit up and pull a 15-inch knife from behind his back, swivel around and come out of bed in one motion.
Steve Wagner
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.
Ozzy Osbourne
You cannot be in the Gulf without being impacted -- it looks like a war zone. It's beyond comprehension to see this kind of devastation, but very sobering and enlightening for us to be there.
Christina Harrison
We're disappointed, because so many people at this place have put so much into it. It's sobering to hear people tell you why they don't agree with you.
Willard Holmes
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
Flemish Proverb
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
I know she was being pulled over. She wasn't lying when I talked to her. She was stone-sober. She didn't drink. What really happened, we'll never know.
Daniel Conley
I would hope the U.S.-side will come to a sober-minded understanding of the serious dangers involved.
Tang Jiaxuan
I've been a real jerk over the years, but now I'm clean, sober and trying to concentrate on the present and the future, ... currently clean.
John Joseph Lynch
And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
John Fletcher
I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on.
Michael Parkinson
I have no way of telling if they're sober or alcoholics. I don't discriminate against anybody.
John Luther
You'll find some heartening and some sobering conclusions.
Lynn Olson
If I'd had any idea what he was up to, I wouldn't have had that sixth shot of tequila so I could have been more sober for all those interviews afterward.
Dierks Bentley
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 keep absolutely sober.
Logan Pearsall Smith
For too many years, we only saw pictures like that in a Hollywood movie. Now it's harsh reality, and it's sobering.
John Stack
It's a sobering realization when one fully absorbs the real impact that heart disease has on our lives and the lives of the people we love. We want to do our part to raise the level of awareness in our community and assist the local Atlantic County chapter of the American Heart Association.
George Toth
That is how we can do our part in keeping our youth safe and sober.
Jane Alleva
This Sober generated close to a 1,500 percent increase in virus-infected e-mail traffic in the past week.
Scott Petry
Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober.
Ryan Macdonald
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Tom Lehrer
The quarterly result errs on the sobering side as a result of the development in revenues, in particular with regard to the already published good results of other pharmaceuticals firms.
Hernani De Faria
This is another sobering reminder of our litigation-crazed society. This suit is frivolous and it's totally without merit.
Russ Roberts
It was very sobering but in a way uplifting.
Jeff Conine
It can be perceived as horseplay. There was risky behavior, but fortunately people were sober. ... People could be slightly hurt, but no one was ever killed or brought to the hospital.
Jeffrey Schmitz
The minute evidence of human to human transmission becomes clear, the hysteria in the media will go through the roof. We have to have access to sober and realistic information.
Donald Donahue
Earlier in life [he] had such a severe alcoholism problem that he almost died and was homeless for extended periods of time. He has been sober for decades and came out of his addiction through AA.
Paul Watson
It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.
David Sowerby
I've got no idea. I've asked some property owners to open up their land for bonfires and music so kids have a safe place to hang out. We could open up a gate and do vehicle checks in and out to make sure they arrive and leave sober.
Ken Broadus
The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.
Meg Garlinghouse
Seat belts are your best defense against a drunk driver. We want people to drive safe, drive sober and buckle up.
Glynn Birch
By the time they leave our program ... they have the tools to stay clean and sober.
Pam Wohlert
When you first get sober, drinking is all you can think about.
Angie Ridings
We couldn't actually just come out and say we had sex with Kate Moss. We have to make it subliminal. It's amazing how much you remember after you sober up.
Nathan Followill
That's probably not the best time to start restricting civil liberties or making fundamental changes to civil liberties is when you're scared. You need that kind of sober second thought.
Kevin Haggerty
This is not a love match but a very sober marriage of convenience.
Matthias Platzeck
Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person.
Imraan Ladak
Mortgage rates were largely unchanged this week, amid a sobering December jobs report and growing tensions in the (Middle East) and the Korean peninsula. Disappointing retail sales, a struggling manufacturing sector, and mild business investment are all holding mortgage rates in the six-percent range.
Frank Nothaft
It's sobering. It suggests that there are relatively few inner cities that are thriving in the sense of job growth.
Michael Porter
The good news is he's sobering up. I told him he's going to have a bad hangover.
Terry Greene
One could argue that every sub-sector has its day. Today it was more of a sobering up morning.
Peter Kysel
It's not sober, but a little bit pensive. We have to think of the future.
Christopher Bailey
[Many have been speculating on the future of New Orleans. Reading these stories has given me hope that it has one. New Orleans is an] intoxicating brew of rotting and generating, a feeling of death and life simultaneously occurring and inextricably linked, ... The city can drive a sober-minded person insane, but it feeds the dreamer. It feeds the dreamer stories, music and food. Really great food.
Andrei Codrescu
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
He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be living his life and that torment is now out of his life. I just wish he had just one more chance.
Wallis Hutchko
The book is a compelling, sobering and ultimately optimistic look at the state of America's news and newsroom diversity.
Eric Newton
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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