The Wisdom of Mustaches

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297


His mustache veritably teems with uncorruptibility. He and his mustache learned much from Friedrich.

A Formidable Nietzsche

While mustaches this full were occasionally grown to cover up the sort of severe lip injuries common in the Crimean War, I think the hastily retied neck wear belies this gentleman's success with the ladies. Perhaps a tryst with the photomixing girl in the congreve closet...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Marble Faun (1860) and possessor of a fine early Nietzsche.

A Fine Early Nietzsche

Happy Birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche!

Today would have been Friedrich Nietzsche's 163rd birthday. If he was still alive he'd be very old.

Nietzsche's iconic mustache rocked the foundation of Western mustache thought for decades, and he is owed an intellectual debt we will never be able to repay.

The Full Nietzsche

A Triple Threat

A deft combination of bushiness, overhand twist, and full mouth coverage of The Neitzsche.

The Untwisted Facespanner

Sprinting past all lesser competition, this gentleman has mated the length of the facespanner with the density of the Nietzsche and the shaggy glory of the mustache as it must have appeared when still growing the wild. An amazing accomplishment and one of the more perfect mustaches I have ever run across.