Beard Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay Download Open image “Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.” — Thomas B. Macaulay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beard Emblems Olden times Piety Time Wisdom
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The New Prophets began to preach by torchlight as though the latter days had come. It was the younger Pliny, those many centuries ago,… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years” — Richard Allibone Copy Share Image
“Normal people began to see that a beard was not synonymous with honesty. It was simply a patchy place to hide one's lies.” — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?” — Jeane Westin Copy Share Image
The beard is a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look. — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the… — Willie Robertson Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know. — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as… — Moeen Ali Copy Share Image
They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid. "Small?" said Hermione. "Small?" "Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Allow me," said the elf, proffering Gimlet's beard to Frito, who was now sneezing uncontrollably.” — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share
If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share
I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
