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> [The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/the-discovery-of-a-grey-hair-when-you-are-brushing-out-your-whiskers/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

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> [The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing… So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/the-discovery-of-a-grey-hair-when-you-are-brushing-out-your-whiskers-2/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

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## Other authors on Grey hair

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## More by Alexander Smith

> [Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/pleasure-has-no-logic-it-never-treads-in-its-own-footsteps/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/the-great-man-is-the-man-who-does-a-thing-for-the-first-time/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/eternity-doth-wear-upon-her-face-the-veil-of-time-they-only-see-the/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/there-is-a-certain-even-handed-justice-in-time-and-for-what-he-takes/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/thoughts-must-come-naturally-like-wild-flowers-they-cannot-be-forced/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/in-the-entire-circle-of-the-year-there-are-no-days-so-delightful-as/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/the-globe-has-been-circumnavigated-but-no-man-ever-yet-has-you-may/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/in-winter-when-the-dismal-rain-comes-down-in-slanting-lines-and-wind/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/and-in-any-case-to-the-old-man-when-the-world-becomes-trite-the/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/most-brilliant-star-upon-the-crest-of-time-is-england-england/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/in-my-garden-care-stops-at-the-gate-and-gazes-at-me-wistfully-through/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/the-spot-of-ground-on-which-a-man-has-stood-is-forever-interesting-to/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/to-sit-for-one-s-portrait-is-like-being-present-at-one-s-own-creation/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/there-is-nothing-good-in-this-world-which-time-does-not-improve/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

> [Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/love-is-but-the-discovery-of-ourselves-in-others-and-the-delight-in/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

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