Top 100 Barber Quotes
#1. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#2. Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
Brian Clough
#3. In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on CNN discussing Afghanistan and troop surges as though they knew what the hell war was all about.
Pete Barber
#4. Who would preach at the funeral? This was a question (like who cuts the barber's hair)
Stephen King
#5. How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,
Samuel Barber
#6. Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.
Benjamin Barber
#7. You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.
Warren Buffett
#8. I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
William Shakespeare
#9. Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.
Daniel Keyes
#10. I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.
Bill Bryson
#11. On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
Red Barber
#12. I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
Jenifer Lewis
#13. It's simple and delicious. So quit being such a snob.
James Barber
#14. I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Samuel Barber
#15. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#17. I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
Lionel Barber
#18. This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#19. If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!
Lynn Barber
#20. When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.
Dan Barber
#21. On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.
Ron Barber
#22. You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.
Dizzee Rascal
#23. Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.
Tim Barber
#24. Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I told him, That's true, I'm hiding from the barber!!
Neil Leckman
#25. My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
Lionel Barber
#26. Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.
E. J. W. Barber
#27. My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lionel Barber
#28. Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
James David Barber
#30. If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber
#32. Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing unemployment; businessmen earn their livelihood by producing products and rendering services where ever they are needed.
Hans F. Sennholz
#33. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
James David Barber
#34. People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans.
Lynn Barber
#35. Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.
Miller Barber
#36. It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.
Daniel Barber
#37. When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
Red Barber
#38. The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.
Jerry Barber
#39. In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#40. Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
Benjamin Barber
#41. For me ... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
Hannibal Buress
#43. Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#44. I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'
Dan Barber
#45. Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber Conable
#46. If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.
Steve Bunce
#47. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.
Karen Barber
#48. In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Chris Barber
#49. The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look towards this enemy, this frozen and brazen gamin, who had both hands in his pockets, but his wits evidently out of their sheath.
Victor Hugo
#50. It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
Dan Barber
#51. A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory
Tina Fey
#52. Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Daniel Barber
#53. The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
Dan Barber
#54. Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.
Tiki Barber
#55. Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
Benjamin Barber
#56. There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.
Lionel Barber
#57. My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
Donald Johanson
#58. Okay, an intro class probably taught them how to get those booties and masks on. Did a munch teach them how to eat Scooby snacks in them?
M.Q. Barber
#59. Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound
#60. By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.
Benjamin Barber
#61. You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
Tiki Barber
#62. I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Joshua Bell
#63. ... those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating them, there was always a personal motive behind his work, a secret conviction that he was somehow digging into the mysteries of his own life.
Paul Auster
#64. As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
Lionel Barber
#65. Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair.
Charles Dickens
#66. For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.
Dan Barber
#68. He is a lyric poet ... aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
Samuel Barber
#69. To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#70. The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.
Karen Barber
#71. In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.
Dan Barber
#72. Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
Daniel Barber
#73. This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
Red Barber
#74. By using our international network, utilising templates and thinking ahead with pre-planned pages that contain carefully selected relevant news, we can deliver stories that other people just don't have. And that will release resources for the web.
Lionel Barber
#75. So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#76. Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)
Manjul Bajaj
#77. Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.
Tiki Barber
#79. The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor.
Dan Barber
#80. We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
Chris Barber
#81. I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
Dan Barber
#82. When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.
Janette Barber
#83. I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.
William Shakespeare
#84. You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.
Bill Barber
#85. First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
Ron Barber
#86. I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.
OMI
#87. My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
Andrea Barber
#88. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Barber
#90. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Samuel Foote
#91. No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
George Herbert
#92. I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
Barber Conable
#93. Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
Lionel Barber
#94. When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.
Charles M. Schwab
#95. In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.
Dan Barber
#96. Ludicrous," Jay said. "I have so much stamina it's oozing out of my pores."
"Best get a mop, then. The custodial staff shouldn't be forced to deal with your overeager excretions.
M.Q. Barber
#98. There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.
Margaret E. Barber
#99. If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.
Paul Konerko
#100. yet the poor knight still didn't wake up, until the barber brought a large bucketful of cold water from the well and drenched him from head to toe, and then he did awaken, but not fully enough to be aware of his situation.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
