Quotes About Maturity

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I had a short temper growing up.

I'm not going to have temper tantrums anymore.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.

I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.

Because William taught me that you can't expect to be treated as a man if you act like a child, and that every life is precious and can be lost in an instant of stupidity or bad luck. He taught me not to waste the opportunities I had, because so many young men never had a chance at them, never had the chance to grow old.

Tracy assessed Shirley Berkman to be midfifties trying to look midthirties.

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent." "I

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.