79 Barber Quotes

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Famous Barber Quotes

No barber shaves so close but another finds worke. — George Herbert

Being a barber is about taking care of the people. - Anthony Hamilton

Being a barber is about taking care of the people. — Anthony Hamilton

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him. — Dale Carnegie

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. - Oliver Goldsmith

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. — Oliver Goldsmith

You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's. — Dizzee Rascal

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop. — Jenifer Lewis

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop. — Bernie Mac

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. — Benjamin Franklin

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. - Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut. — American Proverbs

No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community. — Deon Cole

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole. — Wesley Willis

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. — Stefan Zweig

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye. — Vidal Sassoon

Short Barber Quotes

  • Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound
  • Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut. — Warren Buffett
  • Barbers, learn on the heads of orphans. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks. — William Shakespeare
  • If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut. — Paul Merson
  • I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face. — William Shakespeare
  • You might be a redneck if you need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut. — Jeff Foxworthy
  • I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old. — Victor Cruz
  • This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all. — Red Barber
  • When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious? — Bobby Heenan

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Barber Shop Quotes

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop. — Paul O'Grady

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop. — Charles M. Schwab

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. — Kate Smith

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. — Edsger Dijkstra

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps. — Joe Thompson

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. — Samuel Foote

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. — Hernan Cortes

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that. — Paul Konerko

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More Barber Quotes

A man goes to a barbershop and asks, How many ahead of me? Five. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Four. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Six. The man leaves, and the barber says to another, Follow that man! The man comes back and says, He goes to your house! — Henny Youngman

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! — Sean Patrick Thomas

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional. — Stephen Leacock

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing. — Bernard Baruch

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it. — Tim Conway

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. — Benjamin Franklin

Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best. — Bernard Baruch

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most. — Johnny Depp

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous. — Albert Einstein

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there. — Elliott Carter

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. — Gaspar Noe

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton]. — Johnny Depp

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. — Oliver Goldsmith

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. — Donald Johanson

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. — Peter Welch

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair. — Brian Clough

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself? — Bertrand Russell

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett

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