<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Intemperance - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,    All other parts remaining as they were;     And they, so perfect in their misery,      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons  Of Belial, flown with insolence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22926]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons  Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, and protracted feast,   Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929]]></link><description><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication   Which is more sober far than all sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk   The hopes of all men and of every nation;    Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:      But to return,--Get very drunk; and when       You wake with headache, you shall see what then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22916</guid></item></channel></rss>