"I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them."
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"The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died."
"In the night all cats are gray."
"I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray."
"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly"
"I can sympathize with everything, except suffering."
"There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis."
"I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world."
"I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished."
"Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion."
"All cats are gray in the dark."
"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."
"Gray is the color of all theory"
"In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away"