“ It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. ”
- D.H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent — almost like a carrier pigeon. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 616
“ The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Iron is full of impurities that weaken it: through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
- 28
“ You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. ”
- Thomas H. Kean- Copy
- 2.8K
“ How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that to… negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death. ”
- Milovan Djilas- Copy
- 2.4K
“ To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 2K
“ Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3K
“ If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It's a rough place, son. In fact, you have to puke twice and show your razor just to get in. Better grow some whiskers if you wanna go to Canada. I don't know how the hell I'm gonna get you into those clubs up there if you keep looking like a damn choirboy… ”
- Ronnie Hawkins- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Jones being impatient to be drest... thought the Shaver was very tedious in preparing his Suds, and begged him to make Haste.... "Sir," said he, "since I have dealt in Suds, I could never discover more than two Reasons for shaving, the one is to get a Beard, and the other to get rid of one… ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He had an almost swarthy complexion, with full lips, badly moulded, though red and smooth, above which was a well-groomed black moustache with curled points, though his age could not be more than three - or four-and-twenty. Despite the touches of barbarism in his contours, there was a singular force in the gentleman's face. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 2K
“ Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. ”
- C. E. Montague- Copy
- 579
“ To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts… I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 4K
“ There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 156
“ I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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