Gray Hairs Quotes

#1. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.

Edward Everett

#2. A wise youth has gray hairs though they are not visible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. There's no grandfatherly fondness in me,
There are no gray hairs in my soul!
Shaking the world with my voice and grinning,
I pass you by, - handsome,
Twentytwoyearold.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#4. I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry ...

Zane

#5. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

Mark Strand

#7. I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Eric Church

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

Jean Paul

#9. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah

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

George Bancroft

#11. Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.
Muscles signify strength, not health.
Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.
Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.
Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#13. A ray of wintery sunlight fell across the classroom, illuminating Lupin's gray hairs and the lines on his young face.

Anonymous

#14. No! You mean you're the late CHarlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.

Mark Twain

#15. Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Mary Collyer

#16. But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.

Henry James

#17. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Ruth Gordon

#19. There was another silence, of the kind in which gray hairs seem to creep up on you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.

Steve Maraboli

#21. So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#22. Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Friedrich Schiller

#23. Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through.
"They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.

Margaret McHeyzer

#24. Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

Anderson Cooper

#25. Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.

Reginald Heber

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#27. Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.

Rebecca Brooks

#28. What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Thomas Browne

#29. Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Charles Lamb

#30. Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

Steven Spielberg

#31. When a woman's face is wrinkled
And her hairs are sprinkled,
With gray, Lackaday!
Aside she's cast,
No one respect will pay;
Remember, Lasses, remember.
And while the sun shines make hay:
You must not expect in December,
The flowers you gathered in May.

Ann Rinaldi