Beard Quotes III

BEARD QUOTES III

quotations about beards

Beards are, like tusks or antlers, secondary sexual characters but, unlike these, they are not much use for intra-specific combat.

RICHARD M. WILSON

"On Beards", New Scientist, January 21, 1982

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You may wear, if you choose, a beard pick-a-devant,
A beard like a hammer, or jagg'd like a saw--
A beard call'd "cathedral," and shaped like a tile,
Which the widow in Hudibras served to beguile.
A beard like a dagger--nay, don't be afraid--
A beard like a bodkin, a beard like a spade;
A beard like a sugar-loaf, beard like a fork,
A beard like a Hebrew, a beard like a Turk.
Any one of these beards may be yours if you list--
According to fancy you trim it or twist.
As to colour, that matters, I ween, not a pin--
But a bushy black beard is the surest to win.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

"The Ballad of the Beard"

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

W.C. FIELDS

attributed, The English Shaving Co.

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Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the wollen.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Much Ado About Nothing

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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"

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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

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

JEANE WESTIN

His Last Letter

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

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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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"

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Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Twelfth Night

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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

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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

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

ANONYMOUS

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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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