Beard Quotes - Page 3

• I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

  Keira Knightley

  Guy, Growing, Film

  "A Conversation With Keira Knightley". Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 10, 2003.

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• In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

  Rebecca West

  Mean, England And America, Europe

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• Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

  David Lee Roth

  Rap, Bongos, Beatnik

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• The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

  William Petersen

  Life Changing, Drinking, Tired

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• His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

  Diophantus

  Life, Children, Father

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• There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Ugly, Modern

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• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  James Beard

  Food, Home Cooking, Gourmet

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• And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Equality, Circus

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.26, Penguin

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

  Matt Groening

  Father, Cocky, Cities

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Lisa's Rival"), (1989- ).

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• Beware of long arguments and long beards.

  George Santayana

  Long, Advice, Argument

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

  Alvah Bessie

  Uncles, Aunt, Ifs

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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  Ornette Coleman

  New Orleans, Hair, Long

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• For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Men, Umpires

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• I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Land, India, Way

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• It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Lunch, Stuff, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

  Stephen King

  Years, Long, Twenties

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2910, Simon and Schuster

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Torches, Crowds, Impossible

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

  Niall Horan

  Next Week, Growing, Littles

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• You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

  Emilio Pucci

  Hair, Long, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.

  Justin Hawkins

  Agreement, Maintaining, Sometimes

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

  Cyprian

  Figures

  "The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian".

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• If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!

  Dolly Parton

  Facelifts, Ifs

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• There's nothing in the street
  Looks any different to me
  And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
  And the parting on the left
  Is now the parting on the right
  And the beards have all grown longer overnight.

  Julien Temple

  Bye, Different, Looks

  "Song: 'Won't Get Fooled Again'". 1971.

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• all skinny guys with beards are jerks

  Randy Quaid

  Guy, Skinny, Jerk

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