Quotes About Maturity

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people? Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

Talking is the disease of age.

But there are no grown-ups; that's what you must grow up to know fully.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

fiction. As I grew older I read more widely.

They were skeptical of my youth and inexperience, probably rightly so.

leaving the buyers who had lent at longer maturities holding the bag.

In other words, the world will face the threat of financial crises as long as risk-taking and maturity transformation remain central to finance, and as long as humans remain human. Unfortunately, disaster will always be possible.

As a teenager, I could hardly wait to leave Dillon. But as I grew older,

As Gelbart told me about four months before he passed away, "William S. Paley said television was the best cigarette vending machine that anybody ever thought of, and that's still pretty much what it is. I'd just like to see it grow up, and really be the best thing it can be."7

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

bisognerebbe mettere in croce, a trent'anni, ogni fanatico, perché colui che è stato un illuso, rinsavito, si converte in briccone

Another circumstance of note was the fact that they never spoke about the past: that particular novel, they both seemed to agree, was over and done with, doubtless because it seemed so improbable and false, rather like the books we were mad about in our youth and which, in our maturity, seem somewhat paltry.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

The boy was still there, inside the young man's body. It was the same with all of them, all the men she had ever known, in her family or outside it; they reverted to childhood when they were hurt, or sad, or in trouble.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.