Quotes About Maturity

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.

Você sabe, todo mundo é capaz de aprender um pouco, cedo ou tarde. Tudo o que é preciso fazer é viver.

Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.

All these differences between children and adults

The older we become, the more serious we become about life. An adult laughs an average of fifteen times a day a preschooler laughs an average of four hundred times.

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Men grow old, but they do not ripen.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

It's a rare man who's made better by a bit of power.

Young love is a treasure truly wasted on the young,

You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child's tantrum.

Misjudgment is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect.

Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

But then, you reach a certain age, everything hurts.

Fighting every fight you're offered doesn't make you a big man, it makes you a fool.

It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.