Pale Gray

Famous quotes containing the words pale gray, pale and/or gray:

    “The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
    And thus the native hue of resolution
    Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
    And enterprises of great pith and moment
    With this regard their currents turn awry,
    And lose the name of action.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
    Which once he wore!
    The glory from his gray hairs gone
    Forevermore!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)