Sober Living

Famous quotes containing the words sober and/or living:

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

“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)