Quotes About Maturity

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Growing old is a privilege, not a right.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Women are like cheese strudels. When first baked, they are crisp and fresh on the outside, but the filling is unsettled and indigestible; in age, the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling comes at last into its own.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.

For the second one, put down that I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. My tastes are now more catholic, if not omnivorous. My children call me the walking garbage pail. (On my own terms, of course, I refuse the epithet: All that I take is stored lovingly in an ample home--it becomes not waste, but waist.

One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.

Por qué dolía tanto recordar la inocencia de la infancia cuando una se hacía mayor?

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

widening gap between knowledge and the moral maturity of mankind. And he foresaw disaster if the gap was not narrowed.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently! Time, indeed, will cure it.

The hypermature man wants laughter, warmth, and closeness, but doesn't know how to achieve them and has difficulty letting himself go long enough to try. Change is slow for him, and he needs a patient partner who can see a great person behind the seriousness. Besides, he will never let you down.

Grow up in all things into Him who is the head – Christ. – Ephesians 4:15