Quotes of Wax - somelinesforyou

“ There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

“ The love of money grows as the money itself grows. ”

- Juvenal

“ Where grows? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way. ”

- Robert Alan

“ The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. ”

- Karl A. Menninger

“ As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- St. Augustine

“ What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Frieth in his own grease. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old. ”

- Sallust

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

- Antoine Rivarol

“ Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. ”

- Walter Lippmann

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

- Ogden Nash

“ Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness — but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression. ”

- Lord Byron

“ 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

“ If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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

“ Alpinism is the whole ball of wax, not just one aspect of climbing. You have to know how to live in the mountains, travel, and blend in the technical skills with speed and efficiency. In rock climbing you might focus on a pitch for only a few moments, while in alpine climbing your focus can go on for months. ”

- Michael Kennedy

“ Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect. ”

- Lou Diamond Phillips

“ The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ”

- Aristotle

“ We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations… ”

- R. Abel
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