“Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.” MenShouldStillsDesireFatherSidesBoysYouthFoolishNoiseDreadSoberBaseness Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.” StillsSilenceBirdAll ThingsEveningBeastGrayTwilightSoberCouchesNestsNightingalesParadise Lost Book 9Paradise Lost Book 2Sapphires Author:John Milton
“And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.” StillsFallBedSoberLeafsOctober Author:Dario Fo
“I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.” KnowsMenMeanLongStillsWould BePrinciplesDevilDrunkSober Book:God in the Dock Source: God in the Dock