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[[File:Baba in Nepal.jpg|thumb|Hindu Sadhu with a goatee and moustache]] |
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A '''[[w:beard|beard]]''' is the hair that grows on a human chin, cheeks, neck and the area above the upper lip. |
A '''[[w:beard|beard]]''' is the hair that grows on a human chin, cheeks, neck and the area above the upper lip. |
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*BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head. |
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** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''The Cynic's Dictionary'' (1906); republished as ''The Devil's Dictionary'' (1911). |
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* Many were the disguises he assumed. At one time he even meditated cutting off his mustaches ; — that would have been "the unkindest cut of all.” |
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** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], ''[[Romance and Reality]]'' (1831), Vol.III Chapter 14 |
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* Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. |
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** [[Leviticus]], 19:27 |
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* It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another. |
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** [[Jorge Luis Borges]] in conversation with [[w:Rita Guibert|Rita Guibert]], 1968 (''Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations'', pps. 51-52.) |
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* He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man. |
* He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man. |
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** '''Beatrice,''' from [[William Shakespeare]], ''Much Ado About Nothing,'' act ii, scene i |
** '''Beatrice,''' from [[William Shakespeare]], ''Much Ado About Nothing,'' act ii, scene i |
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* There are two types of people that go around beardless; boys and women, and I am neither. |
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** Greek Proverb |
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==Blackadder== |
==Blackadder== |
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A beard is the hair that grows on a human chin, cheeks, neck and the area above the upper lip.
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[edit]- BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
- Many were the disguises he assumed. At one time he even meditated cutting off his mustaches ; — that would have been "the unkindest cut of all.”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol.III Chapter 14
- Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
- Leviticus, 19:27
- It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another.
- Jorge Luis Borges in conversation with Rita Guibert, 1968 (Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, pps. 51-52.)
- He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
- Beatrice, from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act ii, scene i
Blackadder
[edit]- Edmund: [Referring to The Bearded Lady] Great. We've only got one act, and she shaved her beard off!
- Blackadder
- [Lord Flasheart nods to Baldrick, who's dressed as a bridesmaid.]
Flasheart: Thanks, Bridesmaid! Like the beard! Gives me something to hang on to!- Blackadder II
- Baldrick: Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.
- Blackadder III
- Narrator: [introducing Baldrick] The other was the sole descendant of an unfortunate meeting between a pig-farmer and a bearded lady. History has, quite rightly, forgotten his name.
- Blackadder
