Quotes About Maturity

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man. When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop—that is, with a marriage; but when he writes of juveniles, he must stop where he best can. Most

old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

Maturity...is fatal to so many enchantments.

People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." Mark Twain

But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing'. Of course, not knowing hardly prevents the approaching chaos.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a , and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.