It's a Beardiful Thing

Here are the latest pictures of me and my beard. It is now officially "too long"... in terms of nice-looking beards, that is. Now all I can do is hope that I am able to maintain the the pseudo-ironic, change-of-pace, devil-may-care look that I'm going for, and avoid a headlong plunge into "homeless chic". We shall see...

For now, enjoy these superfluous (and to most of you, probably somewhat disturbing) pictures of me, interspersed with some high-quality Beard quotes gleaned from Wikipedia.

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"There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless — boys and women — and I am neither one." -Greek saying



"A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man without a beard looks like a woman." - Afghan Saying

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"The beard is the handsomeness of the face, and a wife is the joy in a man's heart." - R' Akiva, Eicha Rabbah



Leonato: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Beatrice: What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him… -William Shakespeare - Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene I