<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Luxury - 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[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26103]]></link><description><![CDATA[War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26091]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A most delicious banquet by his bed,   And brave attendants near him when he wakes,    Would not the beggar then forget himself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish   You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26079]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2718]]></link><description><![CDATA[To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2718</guid></item></channel></rss>