Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

— Charles Lamb

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

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,…

— Mark Strand

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

— George Bancroft

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

— Ruth Gordon

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

— Friedrich Schiller

The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm…

— Emmylou Harris

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.”

— Steve Maraboli

Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of…

— Reginald Heber

I'm having a midlife crisis. The gray hairs are not passing. But I am trying to age with dignity.

— Freddie Prinze Jr

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. -Genesis xlii. 38

— Bible

“There was another silence, of the kind in which gray hairs seem to creep up on you.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

I'm 38, and everyone is making a big deal out of it because I got a few gray hairs cropping in my sides.

— Robert Parish