Sober

Famous quotes containing the word sober:

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“Carlyle’s humor is vigorous and titanic, and has more sense in it than the sober philosophy of many another. It is not to be disposed of by laughter and smiles merely; it gets to be too serious for that: only they may laugh who are not hit by it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)