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

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.
Aristotle

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

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.
Ernst Toller

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

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

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza

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

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.
Charles Perrault

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

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.
Camille Claudel

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.
Mel Brooks

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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.
Fay Wray

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

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

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

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.
Mike Thompson

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.
Aristotle

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