If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. – Aesop [Context note: The beard here mentioned is on a goat. The fox is speaking
So when people see mustaches now, they think hipster, not Hitler. And that, people, is the power of creative rebranding. – Kenya Barris, black‑ish, “Crazy Mom” (season1, episode4), original airdate
To draw it to a fine point, as was done under the Empire… is to give the face of the wearer a factitious and evanescent expression, since the points cannot be kept stiff without the use of a cosmetic, easily detected and soon melted. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis
