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«There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.»
«Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.»
«Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: alms, wax
«Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: wax
«Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.»
«My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: / What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: blackish, brook, dealt, deceitfully, vanish, wax
«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; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.»
«Politeness is what warmth is to wax»
Author: German Proverb | About: Politeness | Keywords: politeness, wax
«So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: lodged, unanswered, wax
«Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: givers, wax

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