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

-Pythagoras

"If you make this decision to get involved in drugs and alcohol, you will pay a price for it."

-Todd Crandell

"It's not like I stopped doing drugs and the next day my life was perfect. It was in shambles."

-Todd Crandell

"I am very humbled when people come up and they thank me. This is my job. I am a messenger to help those battling an addiction and prevent those from even starting an addiction. Life is good. With sobriety everything is possible."

-Todd Crandell

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one"

-George Bernard Shaw(Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

-Winston Churchill(British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

"The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober, to observe a drunken person"

-Chinese Proverbs

"A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts"

-Proverb

"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell"

-Edgar Allan Poe(American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849)

"To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity."

-Aristotle(Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)

"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(American social Activist and Tennis Player, the first black winner of a major men's singles championship. 1943-1993)

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

-Henry Ward Beecher(Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-Ernest Hemingway(American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

"Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet."

-Mary Worley Montagu

"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi(Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273)

"The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will."

-Will Rogers(American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)

"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober."

-William Butler Yeats(Irish prose Writer, Dramatist and Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1865-1939)

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

-Herman Melville(American short-story Writer, Novelist and Poet. Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick. 1819-1891)

"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"

-Benjamin Franklin(American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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

"'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.'"

-G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

"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(African born English Writer, 1903-1973)

"In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere"

-D.H. Lawrence(British Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1885-1930)

"Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate"

-Colley Cibber(English Actor and Playwright, 1671-1757)

"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(American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

"Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third"

-Malcolm Lowry

"Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober"

-Legal Maxim