Quotes with hairs

  • Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  • By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
  • Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
  • Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • George Bancroft By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Jean Paul Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
    Vladimir Mayakovsky
     
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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