Justice has a nose of wax. [ German Proverb ]

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

To the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Let not him whose head is of wax walk in the sun. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Under the hands of unlucky persons, opportunities wax old. [ Proverb ]

His heart was one of those which most enamours us - wax to receive, and marble to retain. [ Byron ]

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]

He was given to flights of oratory that way - a very dangerous thing, for often the wings which take one into clouds of oratorical enthusiasm are wax and melt up there, and down you come. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]