Definition of Gray

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Definition of Gray

Gray

White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.

Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

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Gray Quotations

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gray Translations

gray in Afrikaans is grys
gray in Dutch is grijs, grauw
gray in Finnish is harmaa
gray in German is grau
gray in Italian is grigio
gray in Portuguese is cinzento
gray in Spanish is gris

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