What are days for?

 

To shave the beard is a sin that the blood of all the martyrs cannot cleanse. It is to deface the image of man created by God.

- Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible 1530-84, quoted in David Maland Europe in the Seventeenth Century (1968).

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.

- Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep (1939).