#wax

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

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick. ↗

— Libba Bray

#bikini-wax #funny #girl #girls #girly

And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#tiffany-aching #death