Be sober, be vigilant. [ St. Peter ]
Half as sober as a judge. [ Charles Lamb ]
A wild colt may become a sober horse. [ Proverb ]
A mad beast must have a sober driver. [ Proverb ]
True joy is a serene and sober motion. [ Seneca ]
To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]
Wanton kitlings may make sober old cats. [ Proverb ]
Now sunk the sun; the closing hour of day,
Came onward, mantled over with sober grey;
Nature in silence bid the world repose. [ Parnell ]
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. [ Lady M. W. Montagu ]
Scorners are an abomination to a sober man. [ Proverb ]
Deep brown eyes running over with glee;
Blue eyes are pale, and gray eyes are sober;
Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me. [ Constance F. Woolson ]
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray,
Had in her sober livery all things clad. [ Milton ]
Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen;
A sober moderation stands secure.
No violent extremes endure. [ Aleyn ]
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. [ B. Franklin ]
You will never repent of being patient and sober. [ Proverb ]
Come, civil night, thou sober-suited matron, all in black. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. [ Swift ]
He that kills a man when he is drunk, must be hanged when he is sober. [ Proverb ]
Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. [ Mme. Roland ]
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. [ Chatfield ]
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. [ Martin Van Buren ]
Avoid all exaggeration, and be sober, modest, and truthful in all your observations. [ G. Mogridge ]
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. [ Hannah More ]
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. [ Chesterfield ]
The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. [ Dryden ]
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men. [ Tillotson ]
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. [ Cowper ]
There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince never frisks in its tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned periods, but commands in sober, natural expressions. [ South ]
Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]
Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]