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«If the beard were all, goats could preach»
Author: Danish Proverb | Keywords: beard, goats, preach
«Don't point that beard at me, it might go off»
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
«For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.»
«If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; / Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.»
«Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail»
«Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: beard, hares
«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; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
«He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: beard

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