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  • Can't act.Can't sing. Slightly bald.Can dance a little.

    -Anonymous
    c.1930  Studio executive's assessment of Fred  Astaire on his first screen test.

  • Hisexpressionmayoftenbe called bald†but it isbaldas 34 the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

    - Matthew Arnold
      Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Wordsworth'.

  • Go up, thou bald head.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Kings 2:23.

  • The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

    -Jorge Luis Borges
      In Time,14 Feb.

  • John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. Burns

    - Robert Burns
      'John  Anderson my  Jo', stanza1. 1788  'Auld Lang Syne', stanza1. This is the most familiar version of an older, traditional song, reworked by Burns.

  •    My veins are filled onceaweek with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

    -JohnWilliam Cheever
      On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth,10 May.

  • Ihavea lotof sympathy with him.Itoowas onceayoung, bald Leader of the Opposition.

    - Neil Gordon Kinnock
      On William Hague. In The Independent, 3 Oct.

  • If I were fierce and bald and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

    - Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
      'Base Details'.

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