Gray

Famous quotes containing the word gray:

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Bookworm, break this sloth urbane;
A greater spirit bids thee forth
Than the gray dreams which thee detain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
Here H[olland] took the pious resolution
To smuggle some few years and strive to mend
A broken character and constitution.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)