“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.” MayUseFacesLyingFatherWhitePracticeHistoryMinutesHairGoldInstrumentsWineVariousCreatorWarmBreadLuxuryColourSilverArticlesBathsBeardPillowGarmentsPiousRoman EmpireIndignationCensureShavingVasesSalutationsWhite Bread Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.” WritingYearsLooksPersonsLongTwoHandsAgeSongWaterWhiteWalksFireFeetHairHundredHotWinterOld AgeUselessOrganizedWheelsChairsNinetyAlcoholicsCornBeardWhiskeyVigorousBucketsOutcastBeveragesHot WaterWhite HairRibald Author:Don Marquis
“I've had a beard a fair few times and, like most guys, when I shave the beard off I experiment with a few different facial hair styles on the way down to clean shaven. But I've never actually had a moustache for any longer than about 10-15 minutes - during the process of shaving off the beard.” WayDifferentGuyProcessMinutesStyleHairFairsCleanExperimentsBeardFacialShavingMoustacheFacial HairClean Shaven Author:James Magnussen
“You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.” WantLongShowsHairAppearancePsychologicalEndeavorBeard Author:Emilio Pucci
“Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.” HomeLife IsGoneHairWideHouseholdHomelessnessBeardCrowdedRobesHome Life Author:Gautama Buddha
“I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.” LooksLittlesI CanGuyBitsHairLittle BitStriveCampaignsBeardHipster Author:C. J. Wilson
“I went through a very hairy period. I had a movie where I was going to play Walt Whitman that fell through. At the time, I had grown this huge beard and very long hair. But then, the movie got canceled, I had some other parts, and I currently have very short hair. So, when I look in the mirror, I don't know who I am exactly. It's interesting.” KnowsLooksLongPlayInterestingHugeHairPeriodsMirrorsWho I AmBeardWaltLong HairShort Hair Author:Jeff Bridges
“Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny.” KindYoungWhiteImagineHairCleanCopSantaBeardWhite HairClean Shaven Author:Judd Nelson
“You might see someone with dreadlocks and label them a hippie in your head, but that doesn't mean they think of themselves that way. A lot of people look at me and see I have a beard and shaggy hair, and think I'm a hippie. I'm not a hippie, and I'm not not a hippie. I don't know what the f**k I am.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLooksMeanMightHairLabelsLook At MeBeardHippieDreadlocks Author:Jim James
“I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'” PeopleIfsSometimesJobsAsksGrowsPayHairAsk MeWowBeardTransGinger Author:James McAvoy
“You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.” KnowsLooksHardJobsActorsGrowsRolesCuttingHavensHairEasierFakeParksBeardFacialFacial HairParks And Rec Author:Chris Pratt
“She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.” MenLooksFactsHandsWould BeFacesGirlVoiceGrowingHairStandingDancingWoodsBeing The BestSilverOld ManGoddessSmoothBeardGraciousOaksSlenderHeartyWarts Author:C. S. Lewis
“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.” GrowsHairClothesToesWrapsBeardDown The Road Author:Shel Silverstein
“Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!” LightEyeLyingNightDiesBlackTreeSkyHairSkinsDelightBonesSmellFatsHeyEmsCracksBeardToastsTorchesDwarvesFerns Book:The Hobbit Source: The Hobbit