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Letter "G" » gray
«Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.»
«Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho.»
«Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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«Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may!»
Author: Thomas Middleton
(Playwright)
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«Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.»
«Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.»
«Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me»
«Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.»
«Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.»
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