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Definition of Sober

Sober

Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.

Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.

Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.

Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.

Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.

To make sober.

To become sober; -- often with down.

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Sober Quotations

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

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

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

'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.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

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

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
Tracey Emin

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
Janice Dickinson

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren

What's the point of staying sober?
Oliver Reed

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
Paracelsus

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
Courtney Love

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
Gary Oldman

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
Matthew Perry

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean de la Bruyere

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Johan Huizinga

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

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Sober Translations

sober in Dutch is nuchter
sober in Italian is digiuno
sober in Spanish is sobrio
sober in Swedish is sansad, nykter

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