Quotes about Sobriety

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

I stopped drinking, I just wanted to have a clean bill of health... Exercise, meditate.

Mademoiselle, I tell you frankly that to have a healthy mind in a healthy body is the greatest gift of le bon Dieu, and when I see so many people who have clean blood and strong bodies spoiling themselves and distorting their brains with drugs and drink and foolishness, it makes me angry. They should leave that to the people who cannot help themselves because to them life is without hope.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.