LOVE IT or hate it, facial hair can seldom be ignored.
As a result, lip muffs and nose neighbours have often come under the scrutiny of history’s greatest thinkers.
Here’s what the great and the good have had to say about them:
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, Book of Nonsense
- Proverb
Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mous- tache was like eating an egg without salt.
- Rudyard Kipling
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
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
- William Shakespeare
I’ve grown this moustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.
- Keith Carradine
In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe, it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
- Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed
Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one.
- Henry Fielding
Don’t point that beard at me, it might go off.
- Groucho Marx
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
- Molière
Upon shaving off one’s beard: ‘The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.’
- John Updike
Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn’t a moustache?
- James Branch Cabell
A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea with- out sugar.
- English Proverb
There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless – boys and women – and I am nei- ther one.
- Greek Saying
There are three kinds of man you must never trust: a man who hunts south of the Thames, a man who has soup for lunch; and a man who waxes his mous- tache.
- Sir James Richards
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it – and everybody was talking about it – that I decided to keep it.
- Mark Spitz
A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man with- out a beard looks like a woman.
- Afghan Saying
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