A Quote by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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

Quote Topics

Fondness Gray Gray Hair Grinning Handsome Me My Soul Pass Shaking Soul Voice World

Quote Author

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian - Poet
July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930

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

Rabindranath Tagore

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

Jennifer Egan

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 death's blossoms.

Friedrich Schiller

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Reginald Heber

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

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

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

George Bancroft

When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.