A Quote by Friedrich Schiller

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Friedrich Schiller

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Friedrich Schiller
German - Dramatist
November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

Ellsworth Kelly

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

George Bancroft

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

Jean Paul

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

George Bancroft

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

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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm 38, and everyone is making a big deal out of it because I got a few gray hairs cropping in my sides.

Robert Parish

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

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

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Charles Lamb

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

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Alberto Giacometti

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