Quotes About Maturity

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

I am in the prime of senility.

By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. Perhaps 'tis only negligence.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old.

discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

It's hard to become an adult in the place where you grew up. Because you can never escape who you were.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

As you grow older, maturity naturally comes to you. And it shows on your face. It's true not only about looks, but your maturity should also reflect in your performances.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.