Top 100 Beard Quotes
#1. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."
T. Kingfisher
#2. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
Charles A. Beard
#3. Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.
James Beard
#4. The woodcutter brushed the dust from his beard and reflected on how sphinxes would live much longer if they asked a different riddle.
Kate Danley
#5. HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#6. A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.
Caitlin Doughty
#7. You have grown a little beard, I said.
You see it is not true that one can't change.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#8. I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.
Craig David
#9. I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.
Amanda Beard
#12. Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!
James Beard
#13. Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
George R R Martin
#14. I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain Banks
#15. When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
Roy Harper
#16. I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Dave Beard
#17. I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
Henry Beard
#18. It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.
Bill Bailey
#19. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
Si Robertson
#20. Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
James Beard
#21. PAVILIONS OF SUN
Swans do fly
High above you
All the time
Prince of Sun
From his pavilion
Makes you shine
Come, come, come into my garden, lady love
Maybe I can hold your gold hand
Glide within my gold grove, lady love
Know the earth and you'll understand
Marc Bolan
#22. There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight ...
Julien Temple
#23. In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.
Peter Lindbergh
#24. Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words.
George R R Martin
#25. I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
Uri Geller
#26. The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
Timothy Olyphant
#28. I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.
Richie Havens
#29. First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.
John Hodgman
#30. Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
Alvah Bessie
#31. The elevator jolted and came to a halt. Caught off balance, Hannah stumbled into him. Lincoln caught her, and her cheeks filled with color. "Hmm." Mr. Welch rubbed his beard. "Looks like she's warming up to you already, Mr. Cole.
Lorna Seilstad
#32. Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
William Shakespeare
#33. Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman's beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to his wife, so baptism symbolizes our covenant with Christ.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#34. With his long red beard, and bristling with firearms and knives, he reminded me of a pirate. A very mellow pirate, but a pirate nonetheless.
Larry Correia
#35. The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
Charles A. Beard
#36. From CATS ARE KIND
I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
I was puzzled by this;
I accosted the dog.
'If you catch one,' I said
'What will you do with it?'
'Dumb cat,' he cried,
And ran on.
Henry N. Beard
#38. Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.
James Beard
#40. Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.
Charles A. Beard
#41. I like Fidel Castro and his beard.
Bob Dylan
#42. Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear."
"Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined.
A.C. Gaughen
#43. 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
#44. The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.
Charles A. Beard
#45. He had a white beard and twinkly blue eyes, and all in all gave the impression of what Santa Claus would look like if he'd converted to Christian and gone without a good meal sine last Christmas.
Barbara Kingsolver
#46. This Santa's beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasn't fucking around.
David Levithan
#47. A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments.
Pawan Mishra
#48. All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
Moliere
#49. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.
George R R Martin
#50. Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.
Henry Beard
#51. During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
Charles A. Beard
#52. Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner
Daniel Johns
#53. Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.
Charles A. Beard
#54. You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.
Sophie Hannah
#55. I thrive best hermit style.
with a beard and a pipe.
Bjork
#56. Shred my beard and call me Ishmael!" the captain shouted. He
Lisa McMann
#57. Bronn said. He was near a shadow himself; bone thin and bone hard, with black eyes and black hair and a stubble of beard.
George R R Martin
#58. Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.
Howard Zinn
#59. My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
Bruce Sutter
#60. The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked as if it had been sewn by elves on hash.
Margaret Atwood
#61. am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard.
Katherine Applegate
#62. Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!
Charles Godfrey Leland
#63. I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
Ed Emberley
#64. Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.
Henry Beard
#65. His wild white hair and beard projected from all angles of his face, making him look like a dandelion gone to seed.
Kaza Kingsley
#66. Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all ... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal ... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.
Megan Whalen Turner
#67. Oh yeah, you're a regular sage. Shouldn't you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?"
"Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?" he countered.
Jacquelyn Frank
#68. Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.
Mary Beard
#69. Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.
Ralphie May
#70. Every director I've ever admired has a beard.
Peter Horton
#71. Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
Simon Cowell
#72. I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.
Dylan Moran
#73. Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females - and there is more in that than you might suppose.
C.S. Lewis
#74. It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.
Peter Beard
#75. A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.
Immanuel Kant
#76. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.
Charles A. Beard
#77. There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages.
Henry Beard
#78. These stubborn people and their demands were like cracker crumbs in my beard: irritating and flaky.
Penny Reid
#79. The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.
Jo Ann Beard
#80. Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.
Margaret Atwood
#81. A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.
Sebastian Barry
#82. "Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf
Henry Beard
#83. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Mary Ritter Beard
#84. A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
William Shakespeare
#85. You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
Dylan Moran
#86. Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.
Robin Williams
#87. The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Samuel George Morton
#88. Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard
#89. I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
Bill Walton
#90. The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.
Peter Beard
#91. In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
Mary Ritter Beard
#92. I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
Douglas Coupland
#93. Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
Mary Ritter Beard
#94. I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting." (Isaiah 50:6)
Val Waldeck
#95. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Charles A. Beard
#96. I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!
Dave Beard
#97. Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
Henry Beard
#98. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.
Ari Gold
#99. Mealtime
"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn't he so very sweet
To tell me it was time to eat?"
(From A CAT'S GARDEN OF VERSES)
Henry N. Beard
#100. He wasn't speaking to me anymore. We were living in our own worlds of little memories, and even though we were both separate, somehow we managed to feel for one another. Lonely often recognized lonely. And today, for the first time, I began to see the man behind the beard. I
Brittainy C. Cherry
