#wax

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#flanders #holland #liberties #stronger #thus

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#floor #having #just #life #man

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

— Ezra Pound

#barber #dummy #poetry #real #real art

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#love #stuff #wax

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

— Antoine Rivarol

#expands #gold #great #great souls #hardens

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

— Rita Rudner

#country #die #fight #get #go

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#across #blow #candle #dinner #flying

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#human nature #nature #politeness #warmth #wax

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache. ↗

— Curly Howard

#had #hair #i #mustache #waxed

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires