Gray Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Few, Grow

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson

Morning, Person, Dew

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Friend, Tree

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood

Men, School, Stupid

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore

Wisdom, Young, Speak

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Deep, Book

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

God, Away, Worry

The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

State, Anyone, Run

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein

Humor, Attitude, Try

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Charles Lamb

Long, Before, Hair

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington

Clouds, Passing, Skies

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
Ridley Scott

Life, Black, Find

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Age, Heart, Hair

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.
Ann Romney

Long, Hard, Cannot

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul

Life, Evening, Light

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul

Black, Distance, Sorrows

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse

Hair, Cure, Invented

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder

Art, Pain, Live

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Taylor Swift

Love, Music, Writing

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
Christian Dior

Pink, Prevail, Pale

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Neil Cavuto

Time, Shades, Multiple

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
Pete Townshend

Life, Music, Color

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess

Life, Through, Saturday

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft

Respect, Envy, Common

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler

Between, Often, Books

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Frank Gifford

Clouds, Passing, Skies

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley

Worse, Gloomy, Viewing

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