Inquiring minds Quote by Thornton Wilder

“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.”

— Haruki Murakami

“ A Boy Out of the noise of tired people working, Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead, His beauty met me…

— Sara Teasdale

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Beards were like axehound pups. Boys dreamed of the day they'd get one, never realizing how annoying they could be.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“One of the boringly human pair of boys, the obvious leader, was tall and broad-shouldered, with golden hair, as if Nature has said, 'No…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“... for the first time, it occurred to him [Webern] that maybe God wasn't an old man with a beard, but just a spoiled child.”

— Chandler Klang Smith

“What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?”

— Plato

“When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and…

— August Strindberg

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little…

— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged

“I’m like Twain, Nietzsche, and Dali in that I have three mustaches. (I have two of them disguised as eyebrows). Women love men like…

— Jarod Kintz

“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without being seen…

— Laurent Binet