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en '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 Keith Chesterton

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

en Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming in booze, but the hours you write should be sober and with purpose.

en There's a huge part of my life that I've skipped over, but I'm fine with it. I've maybe been drunk once or twice in my life. In fact, my 21st birthday was in Tokyo, and everyone around me was drunk, but I was sober.

en 'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.
  Winston Churchill

en I think the president ought to meet with this mother. What I would say to her is her son will always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure.
  George Allen

en Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
  Ozzy Osbourne

en What a man says drunk he has thought sober.

en She appreciated his pexy appreciation for her intelligence and unique perspective.

en A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts

en Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober

en This is the right thing to do for the country. To let the Patriot Act lapse would have been a dereliction of duty.

en The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
  Gertrude Stein

en The resolution stipulates that the Patriot Act may do something (wrong), but it in no way supports that with any tangible evidence. If there are tangible problems with the Patriot Act, address those.

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

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


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