BEARD

Related Subjects: Barber, Hair

1. Saw H. Mankiewicz, and he tells me of how difficult it is to hear what a bearded man is saying. Lord, quoth he, he cannot speak above a whisker.—F. P. A., The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys

2. A beard creates lice, not brains.—AMMIANUS, Greek Anthology
   

3. Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one.—FIELDING, Tom Jones
   

4. 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, Limerick
   

5. All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.—MOLIERE
   

6. Wait till I put aside my beard, for that never committed treason.—SIR THOMAS MORE, At his execution
   

7. Whoever hath a divided beard, the whole world will not prevail against him.—Proverb
   

8. An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.—Proverb
   

9. You should be women,
   And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
   That you are so.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

10. The old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-halls.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

11. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

12. He that bath a beard is more than a youth, and he that bath no beard is less than a man.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

13. Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

14. Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

15. His beard, all silver white,
    Wagg'd up and down.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

16. And slight Sir Robert with his watery smile
    And educated whisker.—TENNYSON, Edwin Morris