Quotes About Barbers

#1. The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin

Sarah Waters

#2. When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Bernard Baruch

#3. Also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Hernan Cortes

#5. I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Robert Frost

#6. In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber's pole - like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops - is colored red and white.

Cary McNeal

#7. Nurses nurse
and teachers teach
and tailors mend
and preachers preach
and barbers trim
and chauffeurs haul
and parents get to do it all.

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

#8. With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

John Dryden

#9. Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

Albert Einstein

#10. The table was shocked. The entire class in fact. They'd heard tell of Civil War reenactments, but they were still occurring? The War Between the States was another time and another country. As was the South. Are barbers still surgeons? Is there still sharecropping? What about indoor plumbing?

T. Geronimo Johnson

#11. Tyrion: Careful now, Shagga, you've cut him.
Shagga: Dolf fathered warriors, not barbers.

George R R Martin

#12. If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

Paul Merson

#13. I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

Celestine Sibley

#14. Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

Bill Nye

#15. If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

John Eldredge

#16. Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

William Shakespeare

#17. Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

Wesley Willis

#18. Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Bernie Mac

#19. To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

Oliver Goldsmith

#20. I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

Buzz Aldrin

#21. A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.

Plutarch

#22. In every part of your body there is poison. In every muscle of your body there is suppressed anger, suppressed sexuality, suppressed greed, jealousy, hatred. Everything is suppressed there. Your body is really diseased. Psychologists

Osho

#23. It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

William Shakespeare

#25. No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

George Herbert

#26. My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

John Cleese

#27. We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

Walter Lippmann

#28. You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.

Dizzee Rascal

#29. I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

William Shakespeare

#30. If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

Peter Singer

#31. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.

Ocieanna Fleiss

#32. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen

#33. If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Sherry Turkle

#34. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin