Wax Quotes

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.