Quotes About Maturity

Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive.

I didn't know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.

Boys will be boys," he said. When the door of the elevator shut, Reagan said to Hresko, "But boys will not be president.

after-school babysitting? She wasn't like Sierra, six

if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.

youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself.

for it was a new thing to see Meg blushing and talking about admiration, lovers, and things of that sort, and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.

Life is long, and a person's character generally catches up to him.

I feel sorry for young people today who feel so alone that they have to mate with their first crush. It shocks me that so many young brides are pregnant at the alter. When you have kids late in life, you appreciate them more. They keep you young, and you see the world through better eyes. You can give your children a finer sense of values, too, because if you're lucky, you own values have improved with time.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

That is one of the advantagers of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve

Anne Shirley, you're only pretending to be grown up. I believe when you're alone you're as much a little girl as you ever were.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it.The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

My grail chalice has been filled with an elixir that is perhaps headier than the wine of fact-it is filled with swirling, essential uncertainty and the difficult, mature task of dwelling in such a state.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Dante was young enough to be her son . . . maybe even her grandson. She had no business responding to him at all.

What I've found is that the ones who had it rough when younger tend to bounce back better when life kicks them in the teeth as an adult, which you know happens to everyone.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live," said Seneca two millennia ago, "and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.