Quotes About Maturity

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like quite a tragedy.

I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing.

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

Wine is like many of the finer things in life, which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

But time growing old teaches all things.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Suffering brings experience.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday...