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)

“Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)