Evening Quote by Jean Paul

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

During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When…

— Damon Knight

Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun…

— John Green

“I'm the soft light compared to their ultraviolet.”

— Calla Devlin

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

— William Shakespeare

“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

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

— Charles Lamb