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.

-Arnold, Matthew
  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.

-Borges,Jorge Luis
  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

-Burns, Robert
  '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.

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

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

-Kinnock, Neil Gordon
  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.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Base Details'.