Wax Quotes

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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
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… — 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
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you? — Kate Beckinsale
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… — Mel Brooks
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
'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
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. — Rudyard Kipling
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to… — E. O. Wilson
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. — Thomas Jefferson
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. — Walter Lippmann
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.… — Aristotle
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think… — Richard Dawkins
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… — Charles Perrault
I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes… — M. Russell Ballard
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like… — Peter Singer
I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS.… — Donald Glover
Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down. — Gwyneth Paltrow
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt

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