Dean Martin
Singer
"The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher."
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Sober
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love."
Oliver Reed
Actor
"I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"No one dances sober, unless he is insane."
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"They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!"
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"Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating."
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"Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be."
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"Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
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"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."
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"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him."
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"I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober."
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"Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]"
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"Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel."
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"I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now."
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"I'm dead sober. This is just me."
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"What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)"
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"I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor."
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"Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human."
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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
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"I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke."
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"In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted."
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"When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor."
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"I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian."
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"The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober."
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