Quotes About Maturity

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.

It's getting more difficult to be wise, " he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. "I think that's how it'ssupposed to be.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.

There's nothing I want to relive—certainly not youth—and as for what's to come, I'm in no hurry. I

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

Sometimes you really want to say Duh, but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

There you go. Perfect. And can you still throw up at will like you could in sixth grade? That would be good.

Age hasn't matured you. It's made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.