Gray

Famous quotes containing the word gray:

    “Man’s feeble race what ills await!
    Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
    Disease, and Sorrow’s weeping train,
    And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
    Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
    Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
    The short and simple annals of the poor.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
    And nodding by the fire, take down this book,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)