Grey Hair Quotes

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hair, Getting Older

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• For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.

  Arne Garborg

  Life, Fun, Sleep

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• And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

  Hesiod

  Men, Hair, Race

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• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hair, Age

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

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• I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

  David Cassidy

  Son, Hair, White

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• My lusts they do me leave,
  My fancies all be fled,
  And tract of time begins to weave
  Grey hairs upon my head.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Hair, Lust, Fancy

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

  John Cheever

  Hair, Church, Stones

  TheWapshot Chronicle ch. 36 (1957)

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• The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Heart, Eye

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.6

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• A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

  Ilana Mercer

  Team, Silly, Hair

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

  John Zorn

  Thinking, Hair, Discipline

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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• The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Hair, Grey

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.152

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

  Alber Elbaz

  Girl, Clothes, Wrinkles

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Hair, Discovery

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

  George Clooney

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Wrinkles

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• And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Hair, Needs

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• These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Knights, Hair

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1110, Bantam

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• Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

  Clark Gable

  Hair, Age, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Maturity, Thoughtful

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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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 fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Hair, Wonderful, Grey

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