
“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”
As quoted by Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind
This seems to be a paraphrase sumarizing a speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham, as described in Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind (1997) by DeWayne Wickham
Misattributed
“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”
As quoted by Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind
“Hairy in front, opportunity is bald behind.”
Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.
Disticha, Bk. ii, No. 26. The Distichs of Cato were long attributed to Cato the Elder but probably are the work of a much later author called Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century A.D.
Misattributed
Essay 7: "Should I Get My Head Analyzed or Just My Hair?", p. 24
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
As quoted by Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, iii. 26
““You split hairs.”
“Better to split hairs than the heads beneath them.””
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XXV (p. 447)
“While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.”
[Religion: Exodus, TIME, Friday, July 06, 1962, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940033,00.html, September 6, 2011]