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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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"Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic." »Alexis DeTocqueville
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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 hair is a sign of age, not wisdom." »Greek Proverb
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." »Duke Ellington
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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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"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges
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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 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 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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"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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"The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil." »Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
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"Within a stone's throw of it." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Leave no stone unturned." »Euripides
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"Under every stone lurks a politician." »Aristophanes
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem." »Unknown
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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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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"A rolling stone gathers no moss." »Publilius Syrus
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"The falling drops at last will wear the stone." »Lucretius
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"Today's Success is tomorrow's Stepping Stone...." »Siddharth Astir
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation." »Kahlil Gibran
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