A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. [ Schiller ]

Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. [ German Proverb ]

O good gray head which all men knew. [ Tennyson ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. [ Bryant ]

Look, the gentle day,
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. [ William Shakespeare ]

Deep brown eyes running over with glee;
Blue eyes are pale, and gray eyes are sober;
Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me. [ Constance F. Woolson ]

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? [ Jul. Caes ]

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray,
Had in her sober livery all things clad. [ Milton ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

Confound the cats! All cats - alway -
Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;
By night a nuisance and by day - Confound the cats! [ Dobbin ]

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. [ William Shakespeare ]

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. [ Schiller ]

Worn, gray olive-woods, which seem the fittest foliage for a dream. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. [ Jean Paul ]

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds, - in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. [ Richter ]

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. [ Bancroft ]

I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. [ Tupper ]

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. [ H. K. White ]

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 ]

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]

Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. [ Whittier ]

Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]