Quotes on Beards
Some thoughts.
- Greek proverb
- There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless—boys and women, and I am neither one.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Beatrice: What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him…
- St. Clement of Alexandria
- How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!
- This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature…It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness.
- It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man’s natural and noble adornment.
- St. Cyprian
- In their manners, there was no discipline. In men, their beards were defaced.
- The beard must not be plucked.
You will not deface the figure of your beard.
- The Apostolic Constitutions
- Men may not destroy the hair of their beards and unnaturally change
the form of a man. For the Law says,
You will not deface your beards.
For God the Creator has made this decent for women, but has determined that it is unsuitable for men.
Consider these carefully.
