Quotes About Maturity

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

Thank you very much," the girl said. "You know that another woman, or a woman in memory, is a terrible thing for a young girl to deal with when she is still without experience.

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man.

Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là.

Azt hiszem – gondolta –, hetven órában csakúgy elfér az egész élet, mint hetven évben; de csak ha az ember már kinÅ'tt a gyerekkorból, s ha már s hetven óra kezdetét is gazdag élet elÅ'zte meg.

But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with? Would it not be the same in anything? Who else

We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

You will not be nineteen always

Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.

I misjudged you," Harvey said. "You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Al acercarse a los cuarenta años, Ernest Hemingway se había transformado en una peculiar figura

You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.

You corrupt very easily, he thought. But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with?

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.

To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

Todo lo enseña, con la vejez, el tiempo.

MI definición de una mujer hermosa ha ido cambiando con el tiempo. En mis años mozos era una rubia despampanante; más adelante fue una mujer madura, afable, conversadora y con bueno sentido del humor; y hoy en día sería una mujer que se contenta con sentarse a mi lado a ver la televisión.

How old are you Johnny she asked. Sixteen. And what's that-a boy or a man? He laughed. A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.