BEARD QUOTES III

quotations about beards

Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?

JEANE WESTIN

His Last Letter


If you think that to grow a beard is to acquire wisdom, a goat is at once a complete Plato.

LUCIAN

Greek Anthology


Men for their sins
Have shaving, too, entailed upon their chins--
A daily plague.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan


His beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly-beard.

JACOB & WILHELM GRIMM

"King Grisley-Beard"


All the men in my family were born bearded, and most of the women.

W.C. FIELDS

attributed, The English Shaving Co.


This beard is like a winter night, long, dark, and cold.

GEORGE LAMB

New Arabian Nights Entertainments


You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth


And slight Sir Robert with his watery smile
And educated whisker.

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

Edwin Morris


There was an old man with a beard,
Who said: "It is just as I feared--
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren
Have all built their nests in my beard.

EDWARD LEAR

Book of Nonsense


You should grow a beard
A beard to tell a thousand stories never told before
A beard to tell you tales, whilst the fireplace roars

THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

"Have Fun"


He was letting his hair grow, and it was only because Nature is unkind and has no regard for the immortal longings of youth that he did not attempt a beard.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Of Human Bondage


It's a little tragic, it's a little weird
ZZ Top are prisoners of their beards
Imagine them weightless in outerspace
Beards and shades flyin' all over the place

CHRISTINE LAVIN

"Prisoners of Their Hairdos"


My beard wants to know if you would like a comfortable place to sit down?

VICTORIA DENAULT

Slammed


Thy face is valanced since I saw thee last;
comest thou to beard me?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


His beard is like the thistle of the pastures, when the northwind whistleth on the hills. Ewen hath mowed it with his cutlass, as the wildgoat goat croppeth the flower.

JAMES MACPHERSON

The Fingal of Ossian


You call it facial hair. I call it awesomeness escaping through my face.

ANONYMOUS


A beard creates lice, not brains.

AMMIANUS

epigram


Moustache, no
Sideburns, no
Goatee, maybe
Beard, beard

PSYCHOSTICK

"Obey the Beard"


There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.

CHARLES WILLEFORD

Pick-Up


Does he offer you his foolish beard to pluck at?

PERSIUS

Satires