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

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Voltaire

  Growing Up, Men, Ideas

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  25 Copy quote

• 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.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Emblems, Piety, Olden Times

  3 Copy quote

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

  Cyprian

  Figures

  "The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Si Robertson

  Lightning, Insult, Thunder

  18 Copy quote

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

  Ashton Kutcher

  Dresses, Needs

  5 Copy quote

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

  James Beard

  Fall, Souffle, Knows

  65 Copy quote

• 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.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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)

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  20 Copy quote

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

  Alvah Bessie

  Uncles, Aunt, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  58 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source