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. Rebecca West
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard. Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. W. C. Fields
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. Jean Cocteau
There was an old man with a beard,
who said, ‘It is just as I feared! –
Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’
Edward Lear
Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! William Shakespeare (Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing 2:i)