Beard quotes
100 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
"It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show."
"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."
"Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird."
"Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do."
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"Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard"
"You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion."
"All the power is with the sex that wears the beard."
"Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions."
"Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre."
"If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped."
"Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro."
"If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!"
"You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it."
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."
"My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes."
"My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor."
"Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?"
"If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not"
"Is that a beard, or is Niedermayer eating a muskrat?"
"Beware of long arguments and long beards."
"How can a young man like to wear a beard?"
"I like Fidel Castro and his beard."
"The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women."
"QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
