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The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.


William Butler Yeats

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ASHWIN SANGHI Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
W.B. YEATS Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober
LEGAL MAXIM Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twiligh...
AUSTIN CLARKE No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
KENNETH TYNAN She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober,
RYAN MACDONALD A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
FLEMISH PROVERB Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
G. K. CHESTERTON Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure y...
DIANA WYNNE JONES Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
OZZY OSBOURNE Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have...
PETER DE VRIES it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
KHALED HOSSEINI When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was dru...
RICHARD BURTON The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF Seat belts are your best defense against a drunk driver. We want people to drive safe, drive sober a...
GLYNN BIRCH Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go...
WILLIAM R. ALGER When freshmen and their parents arrive in the Butler quad, they have an expectation that they're goi...
JON HLAFTER The biggest problem (with New Year's Eve) is that most people celebrate away from home, and they're ...
CHARISSA MCAFEE The problem with people is; they see the problem.
KAREMA MCGHEE Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.
RICHMAL CROMPTON Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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LINDA HAMILTON The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR 'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between R...
DONALD MCCAIG I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
WINSTON CHURCHILL "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate ca...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.
BRENT RUNYON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
DAVID LEE ROTH The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than...
NICK KINSELLA "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate ca...
G. K. CHESTERTON "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate...
G. K. CHESTERTON 'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a despera...
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G.K. CHESTERTON Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am se...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
JOHN IRVING All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't mad...
TRACEY EMIN Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
DAMIEN HIRST Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, s...
NED VIZZINI A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa).
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
MARGARET THATCHER Life is magical when you are drunk with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
KARL PILKINGTON The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
HUMPHREY BOGART That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about...
MARK TWAIN If you need to get someone drunk in order to have sex with you, you must be a pretty unattractive an...
TERENCE T. GORSKI I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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GARY GOETZMAN Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond h...
OLIVIA PARKER O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk.
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood...
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CHRISTOPHER RAND If people see people on campus that they are suspicious of, there is no problem with calling us.
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JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m...
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STEPHEN HARTNETT The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.
PAT CRAIG Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the cleares...
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There's more enterpriseIn walking naked.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must s...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I dri...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-f...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
La...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris, And her fat...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Whi...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ...
WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER