Beard Quotes

• Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Growing, Habit, Natural

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.150, Zondervan

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• Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard

  George Carlin

  Inspiration

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• Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

  Voltaire

  Growing Up, Men, Ideas

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• Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

  Abraham Lincoln

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

  Minnie Pearl

  Kissing, Men, Mind

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• It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Animal

  "Bewilderness in New York". Comedy album by Bill Bailey, 2002.

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• Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Shaving, Natural

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Passion, Moments

  "Whisker Wars: TV Review" by David Knowles, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

  Si Robertson

  Lightning, Insult, Thunder

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• 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.

  Shel Silverstein

  Hair, Clothes, Toes

  Shel Silverstein, “My Beard”

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• Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Romance, Tradition, Young

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.62, tredition

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• There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

  Jean Cocteau

  Men, Doe, Lasts

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• You can't grow a beard if you shave

  Bob Blue

  Grows, Ifs

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• The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Dresses, Needs

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• Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

  Matisyahu

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Past

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• The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

  James Beard

  Fall, Souffle, Knows

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• Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

  Simon Cowell

  Dresses, Female, Would Be

  "Simon's kind of town" by Craig Berman, www.today.com. January 18, 2006.

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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

  Men, Two, Justice

  A Book of Nonsense (1846)

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• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  Orson Welles

  Truth, White, Feelings

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• Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Emblems, Piety, Olden Times

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• A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, People, Littles

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.66, Penguin

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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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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Bread, Culinary

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

  Dorothy Gish

  Black, Comedian, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.

  Mort Kondracke

  Cutting, People, Gray

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