Barbers Quotes - Page 2

• Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Doe

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• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Dirty, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

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• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

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• Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

  Gaspar Noe

  Class, People, Cinema

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

  Pliny the Elder

  Cutting, Hair, Rome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 57, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter LIX. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

  John Dryden

  Hair, Oil, Care

  John Dryden (1837). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.379

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• It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

  Joe Thompson

  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

  "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.

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• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  Kate Smith

  Home, Groups, Towns

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• I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

  Johnny Depp

  Believe, Men, Degrees

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Bricks, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

  Plutarch

  Silence, Would Be

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 33 Archelaus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

  Johnny Depp

  Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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• Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Nice, Lunch

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• I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, People, African American

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

  Paul Konerko

  Writing, Cutting, Hair

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• A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Ifs And, Doe

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Teeth, Matter

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• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gay, Mind, Half

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405

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• When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

  Swizz Beatz

  Names, Drawing, Extremes

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

  Donald Johanson

  Father, Real, Two Year Olds

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

  Red Barber

  Red Lipstick, Hello, Dull Minds

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• Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Cutting, Hair

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• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  Weegee

  Giving Up, Play, Shoes

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.137, BookBaby

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