Quotes About Maturity

You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky." "We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , comes later.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , it comes later.

Love is not everything, Mademoiselle," Poirot said gently. "It is only when we are young that we think it is.

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Once you've passed, say, fifty, comfort is the only thing that matters.

I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.

Belki de kurtulmak ne demektir bilmiyorsun.' Vera, 'Kurtulmak m??' diye hayretle sordu. 'Henüz çok gençsin... Bu duyguyu henüz tan?m?yorsun. Ama s?rt?ndaki a??r yükü ta??maktan yoruldu?unda, kurtulmak isteyeceksin. Bunu sen de bir gün hissedeceksin mutlaka.

Pas encore. Qa m'amuse." "Really, Poirot!" "Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?

Yes. Of course, 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…

Men are like that... They remain boys...

I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

Ungdomen är hård, ungdomen är stark, ungdomen är mäktig – ja, och grym! Och en sak till – ungdomen är sårbar.

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Két fiatal fiú ült vele szemben. A rend?rség fiatalkorúnak tekinti ?ket, az ? szemében gyerekek, az újságírókéban kamaszok. Hívjuk ?ket akárminek. A kor termékei. Egyikük sem ostoba, még ha nem is oly magas szellemiségek, ahogy az imént hízelgett nekik, hogy elindítsa a beszélgetést.

Bueno, debe ser que el amor no logra adueñarse de nosotros hasta que tenemos cierta edad.

Old sins have long shadows," quoted Poirot. "As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.

He's pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.

To share wisdom with the immature is like giving goldbricks to a child.