C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Beard

Beard was never the true standard of brains.

Fuller.

Beards, in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Macaulay.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth;
And he that hath none is less than a man.

Shakespeare.

How many cowards wear yet upon their chins the beards of Hercules and frowning Mars!

Shakespeare.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr’s remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

G. A. Sala.