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"Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage." »Aristophanes
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals." »Homer
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"As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool." »Katharine Whitehorn
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"Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed." »Chinese Proverb
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"The concept of internal customers suits the wimpy organization headed by a wimp who tries to appease everyone and satisfy no-one." »Jonar Nader
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"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are dangerous." »William Shakespeare
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"Trust not thy secret to a confidant, for he too will have his associates and friends; and it will spread abroad through the whole city, and men will call thee weak-headed." »Firdausi
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"In the night all cats are gray." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"All cats are gray in the dark." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." »Duke Ellington
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"Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom." »Greek Proverb
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"There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray." »Richter
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"There is no more time, the gray cat is sleeping on the gutter morning noon and night." »Nicolas Grenier
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green." »Johann von Goethe
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"No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold." »Vladimir Mayakovsky
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor---through some kind of space warp or something. 'Go, Bob, go' yelled one of the generals. 'Give me that' said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. 'Listen, Bob,' he said. 'You've got to steer that meteor away from Earth.' 'Yes, but how' thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the meteor." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him" »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray." »Doug Hall
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