Quotes About Maturity

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.

There was a time when I'd hoped… But it would never have done. I was an old fool ever to think of it, and it's better this way.

He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.

One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:

Sin embargo, es incapaz de aceptar a Emily como una artista adulta y consciente, dueña de su propia creación.

Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

We outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.

He was just the wrong guy for me at the time. Nothing more, nothing less.

That either (a) she uses children to hide her real adult emotions, or (b) she is still a child herself.

It was probably a function of getting older—I think we all become exaggerated versions of ourselves

She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents? Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.

Not beautiful, not brilliant, no longer young.

Experience has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.