Sayings about Black, Gray & White
Golden dishes will never turn black. ~ Yiddish Proverb
In the darkness all cows are black. ~ Slovak Proverb
A white dog does not bite another white dog. ~ Kenyan Proverb
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Death is the black camel that kneels before every door. ~ Turkish Proverb
Grey hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ~ Greek Proverb
When the white man wins, it is a battle. ~ Native American Proverb
The white flower has bloomed — it is time to sleep outside. ~ Fijian Proverb
The devil is not as black as he is painted. ~ Traditional Proverb
Is the white camel made of fat? ~ Berber Proverb
Out of a white egg often comes a black chick. ~ Italian Proverb
Black souls wear white shirts. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
A black hen lays a white egg. ~ English Proverb
The good white man dies, the bad one remains. ~ Haitian Proverb
There’s a black sheep in every flock. ~ Traditional Proverb
If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you. ~ French Proverb
All cats are grey in the dark. ~ Traditional Proverb
Grey hairs are death’s blossoms. ~ English Proverb
He who runs from the white ant may stumble upon the stinging ant. ~ Nigerian Proverb
A black cow also gives white milk. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverb
Black soil produces white bread. ~ Norwegian Proverb
Frequent washing makes not the crow whiter. ~ Danish Proverb
Under white ashes there is glowing coal. ~ Italian Proverb
Ask me what are my virtues, not about the color of my skin. ~ Arabian Proverb
The viper assumes the colors of his surroundings. ~ African Proverb
Even though chickens don’t wash, their eggs are still white. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverb
The umbrella was made for rainy days; the white man uses it for the sun. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Soap is grey but it used to be white. ~ Russian Proverb
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ~ Turkish Proverb
A malicious man is like a coal sack — black on the outside and even blacker inside. ~ Spanish Proverb
Fools never get grey hair. ~ French Proverb
The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked. ~ Armenian Proverb
It is difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room, especially when it is not there. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every man has one black patch, and some have two. ~ United States Proverb
The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs. ~ Irish Proverb
When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black. ~ German Proverb
As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work. ~ African Proverb
The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. ~ Danish Proverbs
A black plum is as sweet as a white. ~ English Proverbs
The white man never forgets Europe. ~ Congolese Proverb
Not all that is black is charcoal. ~ Filipino Proverb
All poor people ain’t black, and all black people ain’t poor. ~ African-American Proverb
Men make the earth black from green leaves. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch. ~ Dutch Proverbs
When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remains white but its heart grows black. ~ German Proverbs
White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack. ~ Walloon Proverb
Even though chickens don’t wash, their eggs are still white.~ Sierra Leonean Proverb
From the black earth there grows the finest grain. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
First God, then the white man. ~ Indian Proverbs
Quotations
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The color of truth is gray. ~ Andre Gide
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.~ Juvenal
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it’s wrong. It’s black or it’s white.~ John F. Dodge
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.~ Author Unknown
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.~ Anatole France
When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.~ Chief Dan George
You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.~ James Baker
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.~ Richard M. Nixon
Gray hair is God’s graffiti. ~ Bill Cosby
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ~ Philo
It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.~ Charlie Brown
Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. And I wish him well.~ Barbara Bush
I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.~ Michael Jordan
I used to be snow white, but I drifted.~ Mae West
There’s only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.~ Hazel Scott
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. ~ Andre Maurois
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.~ Groucho Marx
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.~ Susan Sontag
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. ~ Doris Lessing
I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.~ Pierre Auguste Renoir
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.~ Jean Paul Richter
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.~ John Weitz
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk — handsome, twenty-two year old. ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism.~ Shirley Chisholm
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ~ William Golding
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~ Duke Ellington
It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray. ~ Eddie Vedder
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ~ George Bancroft
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head. ~ Bible
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.~ Billy Crystal
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let’s stop all the fight.~ John Lennon
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.~ Molly Ringwald
Sorrows are like thunderclouds; in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ~ Jean Paul Richter
There is an incredible amount of magic in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.~ Toni Morrison
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.~ Jesse Jackson
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.~ William T. Sherman
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.~ Quentin Crisp
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.~ Lao-Tzu
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ~ Charles Dickens Quotes
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. ~ Pierre Auguste Renoir
Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.~ Charles Caleb Colton
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.~ Susan B. Anthony
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ~ Robert Frank
