“The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress”
William Howard Taft
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill
“What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals”
Proverb
“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
Ozzy Osbourne
“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
“The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will.”
Will Rogers
“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.”
Mary Worley Montagu
